FORMAL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE COMPLEX SENTENCES WITH RELATIVE DEPENDENT CLAUSES IN THE POSITION OF THE PREDICATIVE TO THE COPULA BE

VOL. 57, BOOK 1, PART А, 2019, pp. 189 – 202 Full text (Bg)

Author: Dimitar Georgiev

Affiliation: Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv

Abstract
The article represents detailed formal descriptions of complex compound sentences, in which subordinate clauses are free relatives and occupy the position of the predicative in the structure subject – copula – predicative. The proposed symbolic records in synthesized form describe the varieties according to the possibilities of expression of the subject phrase and the various relative pronouns that introduce the subordinate predicative clause.

Key words: copulative type of predication, free relative, subordinate predicative clause, formal description