Particle Clauses

Smolej, Mojca

Publication

Particle Clauses

Smolej, Mojca

Abstract

The role of modification is often fulfilled by particle clauses, which enter into coordinate or subordinate relations with the preceding or following clause structures only at the formal, syntactic level, leaving the semantic level relation unfulfilled. An indispensable prerequisite for obtaining a grasp of the syntactic and semantic roles of particle clauses is to approach them from the construction perspective, as the construction method involves in its analysis both meaning and form, that is, structure.