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Semantic motivation for the omission of context-free argument expressions
Semantic motivation for the omission of context-free argument expressions

Author(s): Viara Maldžieva
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: semantic structures; im/possibility of omission; inchoative predicators; Context-free omission of the internal predicate expression; Polish-Bulgarian contrastive studies

Summary/Abstract: „This text is an attempt of a preliminary outline of the factors that determine the possibility of omitting argument expressions from a sentence structure. Bulgarian and Polish sentence expressions with unmarked word order, based on synthetic predicates (verb lexemes) constituted from the first and second order predicates with conceptual structures: P(x, y), P(x, y, z), P(x, q), P(p, y) and P(x, y, r) are the subject of research. For each argument of a given predicate type, both the possibility and the impossibility of omitting an expression have been noted […]“

  • Issue Year: 2004
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 117-130
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: English