State predicate words in Bulgarian – a syntactic description

Marina Dzhonova
Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”

Abstract

The study proposes a formal and semantic classification of constructions with predicative word and an experiencer argument. A syntactic description of the different types of constructions with predicative word is made. The argument structure of the constructions, the semantic roles of their arguments and the possible complements are presented. The conclusions are mainly supported by data from the Bulgarian National Corpus.

Keywords: predicate words, experiencer, argument structure, complements