Синтактична структура на предикати за действие
Syntactic structure of action predicates

Author(s): Yovka Tisheva, Marina Dzhonova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Syntax
Published by: Факултет по славянски филологии, Софийски университет »Св. Кл. Охридски«
Keywords: lexical aspect; Bulgarian
Summary/Abstract: The internal structure of the situations described by the verb determines the lexical aspect (or Aktionsart) of that particular verb. Following Z. Vendler’s classification (Vendler 1967), verbs can be categorized into four aspectual classes: activities, accomplishments, achievements and states. The main topic of this paper is to present the syntactic structure of some of the activity predicates in Bulgarian. Activity verbs denote predicates of homogeneous events that take time but have no inherent temporal endpoint. They are semantic primitives, i.e. they are not derived from another aspectual class of predicates. We consider primary action verbs from three semantic subgroups: consumption, creation, and surface contact verbs and analyze their syntactic realization in terms of the second argument (direct object) and the presence of an incremental theme in the verbal phrase.

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