Negacija u vremenskim rečenicama u hrvatskome jeziku
Negation in time sentences in the Croatian language

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this paper is a syntactic and semantic analysis of negation in sentences with the subordinated time clause. This paper analyzes the position and semantic implications of negation in sentences which indicate the full simultaneity and borderline of the time course. Special emphasis is on the terminative sentences in which as a formal indication of a time incompatibility of actions in main and subordinated clause appears negation. According to some interpretations, negation in terminative time clauses is expletive (Kovačević 2004, Silić - Pranjković 2005, Zovko Dinković 2013), which means that the same meaning can be expressed with sentences with the affirmative predicates. With the examples of terminative sentences will be analyzed sentences with conditional and purpose meaning. The aim of this paper is to determine in which cases the negation of the terminative time clauses is expletive.

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