The Adjective as an Adjunctive Predicative Expression: A Semantic Analysis of Nominalised Propositional Structures as Secondary Predicative Syntagmas

ISBN-13: 9783631624005 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 236 str.

Dorota Szumska

Opis

The analysis is a contribution to contemporary linguistics, particularly the theory of syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Within the theoretical framework of predicate-argument syntax (also known as semantic syntax), the author analyses the role of the adjective as an adjunctive predicative expression. The aim of the research is to create a description of an adjective which could be prospectively useful as a point of departure for analyses of phenomena analogous from the communication point of view in other languages. The book contains a rich text material and a large number of valuable pragmatic insights into Polish nominal syntagmas with an adjective.

Spis treści

Contents: A predicate-argument syntax model - The adjective as a predicative expression - The noun phrase with an adjective as a formalisation of predicate-argument structure - The noun phrase with an adjective as the exponent of an adjunctive proposition.

O autorze

Dorota Szumska is Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Eastern Slavonic Studies of the Faculty of Philology, Jagiellonian University. Starting from the doctoral dissertation on theme-rheme structure, her research has focussed primarily on theory of syntax, particularly on predicate-argument syntax model, semantics and text theory.