Синтаксичний статус залежних дієприкметникових конструкцій

Abstract

The paper is an attempt to analyze the syntactic status of dependent participial constructions that used to be regarded as some semi-structures between phrases and clauses. It is argued that the constructions appeared due to reduction of subordinate clauses for there is no evidence that clause-formation preceded the formation of participial constructions. With the help of transformation method the study proves that the mentioned above structures are semantic and structural equivalents of finite clauses and should have their own status of non-finite clauses in national theoretical courses of English grammar.