Abstract
Nominalising Transformations of Predicate Nominal Constructions in Lithuanian and English
Highlights
As is generally known, transformational properties of a kernel sentence depend to a great measure on its semantic and structural peculiarities
Jis yra abejingas man: He is indifferent to me. Some such kernels contain predicatives with obligatory determiners. It is important as well as interesting to observe that determiners which are indispensable in a kernel sentence may be omitted in respective nominalisations
From the semantic viewpoint all predicate nominal contructions were subdivided into essive, transla tive, and locative
Summary
Jis yra abejingas man: He is indifferent to me Some such kernels contain predicatives with obligatory determiners (see sample sentences 2, 3 and 4, respectively). The inconsistency is only seeming and it generally appears when similar nominalisations are viewed without reference to the underlying construction or the context Nominalisations such as Jo asmenybe: His personality are usually preceded by antecedent sentences or are determined by general speech situation. From this it follows that the complexity of an underlying structure does not necessarily imply the complexity of the corresponding nominalisation. Constructions deriving from essive kernels are outdone by other types of nominalisations: owing to its semantic and structural properties, the type of nominalisation is generally of minimal syntactic. The reason for this should be sought in the semantics of the nominalisations: unlike nominalisations in A, nominalisations in B incorporate subjective determiners in their semantic structure3 In view ofthis, constructions in A and those in B could be referred to as analytic and syntactic, respectively
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