THE SEMANTIC MAP OF INTRANSITIVE PROPERTY PREDICATION IN BULGARIAN AND RUSSIAN

Abstract

This paper explores the place of some deadjectival verbs on the semantic map of property predication in Slavic languages following Prototype Theory, which is widely used in Cognitive Linguistics, and more specifically Croft's Radical Construction Grammar. I propose that intransitive property predicates belong to the category of unmarked verbs but as peripheral members of the category.