Original scientific paper

Pleonasms in the Croatian standard language

Lana Hudeček orcid.org/0000-0003-4667-7781 ; Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje
Kristian Lewis orcid.org/0000-0002-9202-9702 ; Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje
Milica Mihaljević orcid.org/0000-0002-9348-8177 ; Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje

Abstract

The authors have gathered a large corpus of pleonasms from language manuals, journals, dictionaries, students’ papers and texts they have received for language editing. They were divided into different categories on the basis of syntactic (word, syntagm, sentence, text), semantic (hyperonym – hyponym, synonymy, anthonymy, inclusion) and formal criteria (number of words). They have been analyzed from a descriptive and normative point of view and the cases of necessary pleonasms (stylistic, phraseological, onomastic, required by grammar, required by situation or context etc.) have been discussed.

Keywords

pleonasm; tautology; language standard; Croatian standard language

Hrčak ID:

76255

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/76255

Publication date:

15.12.2011.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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