Синтактично описание на предикативите за ментално състояние

Abstract

The paper examines the argument structure of constructions containing mental-state predicative words in the contemporary Bulgarian language. The source material was extracted from the Bulgarian National Corpus. The analysis focuses on predicates denoting knowledge, confidence and doubt. The research reveals that the role of such predicates can be performed by predicative adverbs (‘yasno’, ‘izvestno’, ‘samnitelno’), predicative nouns (‘istina’, ‘fact’) or predicative adjectives (‘uveren’, ‘siguren’). Cases containing explicit or implicit experiencer arguments are discussed along with the possibilities for expressing the object and the content of knowledge. Some adverbs could express the experiencer’s degree of confidence. The analysis of the empirical data leads to conclusions about the common argument structure of predicative constructions denoting mental state and for the syntactic expression of the arguments.