Original scientific paper

The Order of Sentence Elements at Complex Sentence Level and Text Level

Lada Badurina orcid.org/0000-0003-4588-9870 ; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci, Hrvatska

Abstract

Following the ideas of the Prague functional (actual) syntactic perspective on the basic and actual word order, the paper focuses on the order of sentence elements in complex syntactic structures (subordinated and coordinated). The order of clauses in a complex sentence is of primary interest. The issue that is of interest here is that of possible reasons that may result in a structure in which the subordinate clause antecedes the matrix clause (the so called inversion) in various types of texts, that is, communicational situations (e.g. academic and/or lecture discourse, private conversations, etc.). For this reason examples such as the following ones will be studied: Kao što je naslovom najavljeno, bavit ćemo se složenim rečenicama., Kako bismo ubrzali objavljivanje zbornika, želja nam je što prije skupiti radove., Kao što je prethodno rečeno, nastava počinje u listopadu., Ako ne prekineš s glupostima, odlazim!, Dok ne ispraviš jedinice, ništa od izlazaka! etc. As far as coordinated sentences are concerned, we will first focus on the issue of determining the primary word order (Sjedim i razmišljam or Razmišljam i sjedim), and then we will try to establish the possible reasons for disturbing that word order (e.g. Umro – brao trešnje i pao sa stabla. vs. Popeo se, brao trešnje, pao sa stabla, umro.). Finally, since we adopt the view that a constructed sentence can be considered to be a fact of text (J. Silić), but also because the actual word/component order is realised precisely in a (con)textualised sentence, in the light of newer text linguistics (R. de Beaugrande – W. Dressler) we will discuss the order of components as a means of cohesion.

Keywords

clause complex; text; hypotaxis; parataxis; functional syntactic perspective; functional grammar; text linguistics

Hrčak ID:

117811

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/117811

Publication date:

18.3.2014.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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