Original scientific paper

LEXICOGRAPHIC RELEVANCE OF VERB CATEGORIES

Adela Ptičar ; Zavod za hrvatski jezik HFI, Zagreb

Abstract

The verb categories -aspect, person, state, transitivity, mode, tense, number and gender -are quite numerous and highly interwoven. Such morphological and syntactic complexity induces further semantic and lexicographic dilemmas. Based upon the examples retrieved from four recent Croatian monolingual dictionaries, presented in the article are indications of certain problems imposed by the grammatical relations encountered in the lexicographic process. Particularly high oscillations and non-systematic introduction of entries in defining bi-aspectual verbs, as well as transitive and reflexive verbs, are present. For that reason it would be highly recommended that, before commencing work on any ambitious dictionary project, each of the categories should be thoroughly analyzed.

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Hrčak ID:

157776

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/157776

Publication date:

5.5.1994.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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