Болгарские конструкции с предикативным определением: в поисках прототипической модели
Bulgarian constructions with a predicative definition: in search of a prototypical model

Summary/Abstract: Constructions with depictive attributes representing a special kind of secondary predication have been the object of recent discussions within the formal and constructional frameworks. One of the key issues in understanding this phenomenon and the variants of its realization in various languages is the identification of its prototypical model. The present paper shows that in Bulgarian, the core construction with the subject-oriented depictive secondary predicate contains the verb of controlled action as the main predicate and a non-finite form of the verb of uncontrolled action. In this way, the search of the prototypical model is related to the feature “controllability/uncontrollability of action” discerned in the semantics of both main and secondary predication. Based on the suggested parameter, the other variety of the construction in question, the one with the object-oriented depictive secondary predicate, has a different organization not only in the syntactic but also in the semantic aspect. It is demonstrated that different semantic varieties of constructions with the depictive secondary predicate have different translations in Russian.

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