THE MARKING OF THE REPETITIVE PAST ACTIONS IN THE SHORT STORIES BY ĆAMIL SIJARIĆ Cover Image

ОБЕЛЕЖАВАЊЕ ПРОШЛИХ ПОНАВЉАНИХ РАДЊИ У ПРИПОВЕТКАМА ЋАМИЛА СИЈАРИЋА
THE MARKING OF THE REPETITIVE PAST ACTIONS IN THE SHORT STORIES BY ĆAMIL SIJARIĆ

Author(s): Bojana M. Veljović
Subject(s): Language studies, Studies of Literature, Short Story, Bosnian Literature, South Slavic Languages
Published by: Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara
Keywords: habituality; potencijal (the potential form); prezent; imperative; perfekat;

Summary/Abstract: In the Serbian language, the events detected in the past which are characterized by the repetition of performance can be expressed by perfekat, narativni prezent, potencijal (the potential form), and the imperative, whereas their syntacticsemantic traits and the scope of usage overlap to a lesser or greater degree. Nonetheless, each and every syntactic unit also possesses differential features which allow its functioning in the system of partly synonymous forms. In Serbian, perfekat is used in the factually intonated narration, where the stress is primarily on the informative side of the utterance, which can also be detected in the expression of habitual actions. Potencijal and the imperative mark the repetitive past actions, playing a secondary role, which indicates that we are speaking about marked forms, the carriers of „stilski potencijalˮ (which appear in an emotional intonated utterance). The short stories by Ćamil Sijarić belong to the literature written in a dialect. As a result, our task is to determine the way in which the system of forms used to express habituality functions in the domain of the literary-artistic style of Serbian as well as how the peculiarities of the idiom representing the basis of the language of the author, that is, of his characters, are reflected in narration. Bearing in mind that we have a speech from a peripheral zone of the Zeta-Sjenica dialect, characterised by an abundant system of verbs, the matter excerpted allows viewing the units in a complex system of relations.

  • Issue Year: 3/2017
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 45-61
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Serbian