СИНТАКТИЧНО ОПИСАНИЕ НА ПРЕДИКАТИВИТЕ ЗА МЕНТАЛНО СЪСТОЯНИЕ
Syntactic Description of Mental-State Predicative Constructions

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines the argument structure of constructions containing mental-state predicative words in the contemporary Bulgarian language. The source material was extracted from the Bulgarian National Corpus. The analysis focuses on predicative constructions denoting knowledge, confidence and doubt. The research reveals that the constructions under consideration include predicative adverbs (yasno, izvestno, samnitelno), predicative nouns (istina, fact) or predicative adjectives (uveren, siguren). Sentences containing explicit or implicit experiencer arguments are discussed along with the possibilities for expressing the object and the content of knowledge. Some adverbs could express the experiencer’s degree of confidence. The analysis of the empirical data leads to conclusions about the common argument structure of predicative constructions denoting mental state and for the syntactic expression of the arguments.

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