Original scientific paper
DETERMINER AS AN INDICATION OF RESTRICHVENESS/UNRESTRICTIVENESS OF THE RELATIVE CLAUSES IN CROATIAN
Snježana Kordić
Abstract
The paper deals with nominal phrase ,(NP) which contains relative clause (RC). A typical RC takes the attributive function inside the NP. Apart from the attribute, NP always contains a unit functioning as a substantive and can contain a unit functioning as a determiner. All members of the NP can be put into these three functional classes (determiner, attribute, substantive) according to their function. The unmarked position of those elements in the NP is: Det - Sub - At=RC. As the attribute modifies the substantive restrictively or unrestrictively, the RC can be restrictive or unrestrictive. Although the restrictiveness/unrestric- tiveness of the RC depends on many factors (and is a result of their mutual relation), among which pragmatic factors play an important role, some (formal) constituents of the NP can be taken as an indication for restrictiveness/unrestric- tiveness of the RC. On the basis of corpus gathered from newspapers, literature, administrative texts and scientific texts, the present paper points out a connection between some unit functioning as a determiner and restrictiveness vs. unrestric- tiveness of the RC. Thus, if demonstrative pronouns onaj, takav, onakav are determiners, RC will be restrictive. It is the same case if definite pronouns svi or svaki are determiners. On the other hand, RC will be unrestrictive if demonstrative
pronouns ovaj, taj are determiners; if any possessive pronoun is determiner;
if indefinite pronoun neki or number (indefinite article) jedan are determiners.
In the above cases the restrictiveness/unrestrictiveness of the RC is predictable
from the determiner.
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Hrčak ID:
214530
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Publication date:
1.5.1993.
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