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Rasprave Instituta za hrvatski jezik, Vol. 32 No. 1, 2006.

Original scientific paper

From Inanimacy to Animacy

Goranka Blagus Bartolec

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Abstract

The masculine animate/inanimate classification is a general characteristic of Croatian and other Slavonic languages (except Bulgarian and Macedonian). In this classification there are two types of case syncretism: genitive-accusative syncretism conditioned by animacy of the noun and nominative-accusative syncretism conditioned by inanimacy of the noun. Using the examples extracted from everyday speech, this paper deals with inanimate masculines which do not follow prototype nominative-accusative patterns and strives to elucidate semantic and lexical conditions for their gramaticalanimacy, discernible in genitive-accusative syncretism.

Keywords

genitive-accusative syncretism; nominative-accusative syncretism; animacy; inanimacy; masculines

Hrčak ID:

9287

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/9287

Publication date:

26.2.2007.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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