The Predicative Adjunct in Prepositional Contexts. A Survey of Structures Introduced by cu and fără Cover Image

Predicativul suplimentar în ipostaze prepoziționale. O analiză a construcțiilor introduse prin cu și fără
The Predicative Adjunct in Prepositional Contexts. A Survey of Structures Introduced by cu and fără

Author(s): Alina-Paula Neamțu
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Morphology, Syntax
Published by: Editura Universității Aurel Vlaicu
Keywords: Predicative Adjunct; Prepositional Phrase; derivational structure; abbreviation; syntactic homonymy;

Summary/Abstract: Being a secondary part of sentence richly expressed in written texts and occurring in a wide range of contexts, the Predicative Adjunct has long been in the linguists’attention. A unanimously accepted fact is that it has a derivational history, being conditioned by the verb and implied in a double subordination type of relation. The Predicative Adjunct is a syntactic position obtained by abbreviation from a two-sentence utterance, expressing either a quality attributed to the Subject or the Object or a state/ an action which is simultaneous with that of the main verb (the finite). From the multiple parts of speech it can be represented by, our study focuses mainly on two prepositional contexts, cu/ fr + Noun, offering a detailed description of their use in literary texts and discussing the possible confusions generated in different contexts. The examples chosen were excerpted from both poetic and narrative texts, demonstrating that the Predicative Adjunct entails various stylistic effects.

  • Issue Year: 10/2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 91-108
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Romanian