The paper shows that the theme argument of verbal nouns can be expressed by NPGEN and by possessive adjectives. The agent argument can appear as a possessive adjective, as NPGEN, or as the construction PP od strane + NPGEN (in Serbian) and the construction PP s strani + NPGEN (in Slovene). Group adjectives can represent only the agent argument, not the theme argument. It is important to emphasise that in Serbian not only the agent argument of an intransitive verb, but also the agent argument of a transitive verb can be expressed by NPGEN.
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