THE SEMANTICS OF THE VERB FORGET AND ITS SYNTACTIC PROJECTIONS

The verb forget belongs to the group of cognitive verbs. In accordance with the principles of Polish school of semantic syntax the verb forget is predicative expression of the predicate of the second rank. Characteristic of the predicates of the second rank is that they express man`s inner world, his intellectual, emotional and volitive processes. The first argument of this type of predicates is the man, and the second argument of this type of predicates is part of man`s inner life. The aim of this article is to show the semantics of the verb forget and its syntactic projections. Our analysis of meaning and its syntactic projections is based on examples from the literature that will be used, as well as examples of linguistic corpus from the Digital dictionary of Macedonian language, accessible to privileged users. Analysis will be carried out in accordance with the principles of Polish school of semantic syntax. In this article we will show syntactic features of the predicate-argument structures (PAS) of the predicate forget, depending on its meanings. Also we will present syntactic derivations of the predicate-argument structures, depending on the communicative needs of the speaker. In this manner, we will present some of the mechanisms of the language to organize semantic information in formal, syntactic level, depending on the communicative hierarchy established by the speaker of the speech act. The meaning omit to do something introduces да – complement (да – construction). From the formal point of view, the predicate forget in this meaning can not have present tense in its basic meaning. Usually, it has form of aorist, perfect and plusquamperfect (the past perfect tense). When this predicate is in form of the present tense, it indicates iterative events. The second type of constructions in which the predicate forget occurs are those in which the second argument is clause with syntactic function object. This include two types of sentences: introduced with conjunction дека (that – complement) and introduced with interrogative pronoun word (wh – complement). In the constructions of the first type, introduced with conjunction дека, the subject of forgetting is the whole PAS introduced with this conjunction. In the constructions of the second type, introduced with interrogative pronoun word functioning as conjunction, the subject of forgetting is a segment of PAS – argument of the predicate forget, namely that segment, to which interrogative pronoun is referred to. In the semantic-syntactical derivations of the predicate-argument structures that predicate forget implies, occur nominal phrases introduced directly (functioning as direct object) or introduced by preposition на / за (functioning as prepositional object). In the case when the nominal phrases are introduced directly, the intensity of forgetting is stronger.