PREDICATE ADJECTIVE CONSTRUCTIONS: А HISTORY OF IDEAS WITH DATA FROM RUSSIAN AND BULGARIAN

Abstract

In this article I present the category of property predication and its instantiation by predicate adjective constructions and deadjectival verbs in Slavic languages, mainly Russian and Bulgarian. Previous analyses albeit insightful have treated these constructions as disjointed in mental space. I suggest a cognitive linguistic approach in which the adjective predicate constructions are complex and general (schematic) syntactic constructions. On the semantic map of property predication they occupy a contiguous place to the complex, less schematic and more substantive intransitive deadjectival verbs in the syntax-lexicon continuum.