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Čakavska rič : Polugodišnjak za proučavanje čakavske riječi, Vol. XXXV No. 1, 2007.

Original scientific paper

"FREE" DUAL IN ČAKAVIAN LEGAL TEXTS FROM THE 14th TILL THE 18th CENTURY

Boris Kuzmić orcid id orcid.org/0000-0001-5757-2913 ; Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

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Abstract

The author focuses on the relationship between plural and dual number in denoting objects or body parts that come in pairs.
A research conducted on the corpus of the čakavian legal texts from the 14th till the 18th century reveals that the plural forms dominated from the 16th century. "free"
dual was used from the 15th century to emphasize the sum, the totality of all symmetrical objects and body parts of which there are commonly only two, whereas "free" plural was used with the number two, as well as to refer to the entities that come in pair.
From the 16th century onwards the dual was not perceived as a grammatical category of number according to its meaning, but exclusively according to its form to which the new, plural meaning was added.

Keywords

dual; plural; čakavian idiom; law

Hrčak ID:

38332

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/38332

Publication date:

17.10.2007.

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