Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.17234/Croatica.42.11

Relative Clause in the Croatian Language at the Turn of the 16th Century

Kristina Štrkalj Despot orcid.org/0000-0001-9004-5103 ; Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

At the turn of the 16th century in the Croatian language occurred an important syntactic change, known as the process of “departicipalization”, or the transformation of inherited participles in the attributive function into relative clauses. This paper will investigate the extent and the ways in which participles were replaced by relative clauses in the Chakavian texts from the period. Types and frequency of relative clauses as well as types of antecedents and relational junctures are discussed in the paper.

Keywords

relative clause; historical syntax; Old Croatian language; antecedent

Hrčak ID:

206750

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/206750

Publication date:

30.10.2018.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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