Open AccessComplement sentences - complementizers of causative-manipulative verbs
Author(s) -
B Milivoj Alanovic
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
južnoslovenski filolog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0763
pISSN - 0350-185X
DOI - 10.2298/jfi1504203a
Subject(s) - complement (music) , linguistics , causative , verb , interrogative , sentence , meaning (existential) , computer science , semantic role labeling , function (biology) , conjunction (astronomy) , key (lock) , psychology , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , philosophy , biochemistry , chemistry , evolutionary biology , complementation , biology , psychotherapist , gene , phenotype , physics , computer security , astronomy
This paper presents the key structural and semantic features of the complement sentences that have the primary function of direct or indirect objects of one type of causative verbs - causative-manipulative verbs. Since the syntactic literature frequently discusses the structural characteristics of the complement sentences, the main objective of this article is focused on the semantic diversity of this type of sentences. The goal of the article is to determine the dependence of the realized meaning of a sentence on the semantic type of the main verb. Although the conjunction da is a typical subordinator of these sentences, a series of communicative verbs allows the use of complement sentences with interrogative adverbs and pronouns in the function of conjunctions. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br.178004: Standardni srpski jezik - sintaksička, semantička i pragmatička istraživanja