СТАТУС ВЕЗНИКА ДОК У КОНТРАСТНИМ РЕЧЕНИЦАМА
STATUS OF THE CONJUNCTION ДОК (‘WHILE’) IN CONTRAST CLAUSES

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with the criteria based on which the conjunction док is classifi ed as a coordinating or subordinating conjunction in contrast clauses. This paper was occasioned by the one written by D. Klikovac (2022) published in Јужнословенски филолог (vol. LXXVIII, no. 1), in which the application of pseudo-scientific criteria brought into question the exact syntactic criteria according to which the conjunction док is classifi ed exclusively as a subordinating conjunction. This paper presents a detailed and criteria-based analysis of all the arguments that the author provided in order to prove that the conjunction док in complex contrast sentences does not belong to the subordinating, but to the coordinating conjunctions. The detailed analysis of each of the arguments given by the author with a view to refuting the subordinating status of the contrastive conjunction док showed that none of those criteria has the status of the suffi cient reason for classifying this conjunction as a coordinating one. This paper confi rmed the scientifi c fi ndings that the contrastive conjunction док shares all the features of the subordinating conjunctions, which are the following: a) it introduces the clause structure it belongs to into the complex sentence, b) introduces only dependent clauses, c) contrast док-clauses can be condensed into prepositional case constructions functioning as an adverbial. None of those features is shared by any coordinating conjunction.

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