Romanic, Germanic and Oriental languages
Published 2018-02-26
Keywords
- predicative adjectives,
- semantic peculiarities,
- pragmatic peculiarities,
- speech act
Abstract
The article deals with the semantic peculiarities of the predicative adjectives. The differences in the meaning of the predicative adjectives depending on the use of the structure with different prepositions have been analyzed. Adjective complementation with the “to+Infinitive” and “that clause” has been studied. The analyzed speech acts in which the predicative adjectives are used prove the different roles of the addresser and addressee.