Predicative phrases

1. Infinitive predicative phrases: for John to go

2. Gerundial predicative phrases: him being late

3. Absolute Predicative Phrases: All things consider I agree to you proposal

 

The classification is more extended more detailed it is based on different principles but not all types distinguish by prof. Бархударов are accepted by other scholars. Which once recognized and the second type(coordinate phrases) and the third predicative phrases are not recognized phrases by many scholars.

The Problems:

1. Ильишь refers to phrases every combination of two or more words. He recognizes phreses even when there is a combination of when we have prepositions: to the university, of the boy. Most scholars don’t believe that are phrases. Because scholars believe that we have notional words. His arguments: If we don’t accept such combination and neglect them they are very often not.

2. Бархударов. Predicative combinations are given as phrase like American scholars. Some special constructions.

3. Blokh. Phrases are always build on the principle of subordination.

 

In Russian linguistics (Виноградов, Суботин), predicative combinations are not called phrases and Виноградов called it sentences bases: He took

Blokh uses always subordinate phrases but S + predict. May be called phrases, on the other hand they are sentences bases.

Idiomatic phrases: we have two words but they are used in the change meaning and the may refer to the idiomatic phrases. E. g. To beat about the bush.

Are they phrases or not. They are not phrases, not grammatical phrases when we speak about grammatical ph. All the words are used in the dictionary meaning a general meaning is explicit. Idiomatic phrases ready may units. But phrases are freely constructed in speech.

 

Both of them the phrase and sentence are freely constructed in speech but phrases are nominative units of the language, the sentence on the one hand nominative unit it nominates a whole situation. The other hand it is a predicative unite of the language: subject and predicate. It expresses predications.