Filologija, No. 27, 1996.
Original scientific paper
Structural and semantic status of comparative sentences
Luka Vukojević
; Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezihaslovlje, Zagreb
Abstract
The paper deals with the grammatical status of comparative sentences and their relationship with the sentences of manner: Do the comparative sentences exist? Are they a type of the sentences of manner or a special structural and semantic type of adverbial sentences? The comparative clauses are analysed within the correlative syntactic system. Their structural, functional and semantic characteristics are investigated and described, especially the characteristics of those comparative sentences which express similarity. By some of their characteristics, comparative sentences are similar to relational sentences. According to their structural, syntactic, and semantic features, we can distinguish on the one hand comparative sentences, which express similarity and the comparative sentences, which express difference (dissimilarity) and, on the other hand, restrictive comparative sentences from non-restrictive comparative sentences. All sentences described in traditional Croatian grammars as sentences of manner and comparative sentences or sentences of manner or comparative sentences are in this paper considered comparative sentences. Only those sentences introduced by the subjunctors tako da, tako to, time što and na taj način da/što are regarded as the sentences of manner.
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Hrčak ID:
157408
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Publication date:
28.4.1997.
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