Filologija, No. 14, 1986.
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Some syntactic characteristics of an American-Croatian newspaper: interference in the government of word usage
Ivan Bauer
Sažetak
This article is concerned with direct-borrowing phenomena in the Serbo-Croatian language used by bilingual Croatian immigrants and Croatian Americans in the USA. The objects of the author's particular linguistic interests are some important features of syntactical linkage in the government of word choice in the Croatian section of the weekly 'Zajedničar', the official organ of the Croatian Fraternal Union, published in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania since 1904. The analysis of direct-borrowing phenomena in the government of word usage, particularly in view of the choice of prepositions governed by verbs, nouns and adjectives, clearly demonstrates that syntactic interference of American English is a factor of utmost importance in bringing about deviations from the Serbo-Croatian syntactic norm in the text of 'Zajedničar'. Syntactic interference is manifested in a direct transfer of American English structures into Serbo-Croatian.
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Hrčak ID:
184027
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Datum izdavanja:
15.12.1986.
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