The role of prepositions in the sense relation establishment between components of adjective word-groups in French
This paper deals with two lexico-semantic groups of French adjectives, which allow for either à or de prepositions when used with subordinate prepositional noun group. Such performance is regarded as transitional and its function in the sentence is considered to be predicative. The adjective constructions are described in terms of predicate and its actants. Content valences of certain types of adjective predicates and the means of their realisation in the utterance syntactic structure are analysed next. It is shown that the choice making between prepositions used to signify an indirect object, that adds to the syntactic structure some semantic actant, follows certain patterns. Specific features of à and de performance are studied when those prepositions are used as a part of subordinate noun group.