Open AccessThe structural possibilities of serbo-croatian related to the English structure adjective + prepositional sentential complement
Author(s) -
Ljiljana Bibović
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
linguistica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.134
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2350-420X
pISSN - 0024-3922
DOI - 10.4312/linguistica.24.1.369-382
Subject(s) - linguistics , subject (documents) , adjective , gerund , complement (music) , sentence , noun , dative case , generative grammar , psychology , philosophy , computer science , biochemistry , chemistry , complementation , library science , gene , phenotype
Sentential complements occurring with prepositions in English are traditiona ly known as gerunds, verbal forms in -ing having the functions of both nouns and verbs.In transformational-generative grammar they are interpreted as ,embedded sentences in the underlying structure containing their own subject, which may be either deleted under coreference with the subject of the matrix sentence or overtly expressed, as in 1. (a)John is happy about leaving (b) John is happy about Mary leaving.