Original scientific paper
PROBLEMS OF PRONOMINAL HISTORICAL SYNTAXIS IN SOUTH SLAVIC LANGUAGES (MODEL OF PERSONAL PRONOUNS)
Anita Peti
Abstract
Concerning numerous questions connected with pronouns, there have been several phenomena which call for an explanation, some of which are primarily connected with general linguistic viewpoints, and the other are specifically Slavic. One among the most interesting questions which belong primarily to Slavic area is connected with an existence of so called »long« and »short« forms of personal pronouns, which have usually been identified with »accented« and »unaccented«. The problem has been observed on the material of South Slavic languages because
they keep diversity of distinguishing prosodic features (accent, intonation, length).
It has been emphasized that it would be methodologically wrong to transmit the present state situation into older periods, since the origins of encliticity were for different pronominal forms different. From the oldest periods the »original« enclitic forms operated differently in sentences than the »new« ones.
The author believes that she found some traces of this differentiation in functioning of these pronominal forms South Slavic languages. On the basis of these examples, as well as on the basis of diachronic analysis, she proposed three possible accentual stages for South Slavic pronouns:
1. long and accented
2. short and unaccented
3. short and accented
Third possibility is new mode of explaining occurences of short pronominal forms in places »reserved« for accented words. Since the differentiation of short accented and unaccented forms depend on their function in a sentence, the author believes that historical syntactical investigation should be the way to gain better understanding of this problem.
In explaining a mutual connection of semantic and terminology questions, the author concentrated on terms »lexical« and »grammatical« meaning as well as on question of »open« and »closed« groups. She connected questions on replacing
with those groups of questions, trying to show that we have to speak about different types of replacing by different pronouns.
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Hrčak ID:
214546
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Publication date:
1.5.1993.
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