Daiktavardinės kaip konstrukcijos kaip analitinis predikatyvų žymėjimo rodiklis
Substantival “Kaip” - Constructions as an Analytic Device for Marking Predicates

Summary/Abstract: This article deals, with the aid of typological data and grammatical hierarchies, with the substantival kaip-phrases in Lithuanian. Comparative constructions and appositional constructions at noun phrase level are left out of consideration, and attention is focused on /caip-phrases with the status of sentence-level predicates, expressing either primary or secondary predication, i. e., copular predicates and secondary predicates having the status of modifiers. The /caip-phrases investigated here encode complementative, depictive and circumstantial secondary predicates as well as adverbials. It is argued that in addition to typical instances of (complementative, depictive and circumstantial) secondary predicates and adverbials, there are also transitional cases. The more a secondary predicate is internal to the main predicate, the more it will tend to be encoded by bare case, though an alternation of bare case and analytical marking, both as an instance of morphosyntactic variation and with a clear opposition of meaning, is possible.

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