Noun phrases with prepositional complements in German 
and their equivalents in Croatian Cover Image

Imenske skupine s prijedložnim komplementima u njemačkom i njihovi ekvivalenti u hrvatskom jeziku
Noun phrases with prepositional complements in German and their equivalents in Croatian

Author(s): Velimir Petrovic
Subject(s): Morphology, Syntax, Descriptive linguistics, South Slavic Languages, Philology
Published by: Filozofski fakultet, Sveučilište Josipa Jurja Strossmayera, Osijek
Keywords: noun phrase; functions of grammatical articles; noun valency; prepositional complement to the head of the noun phrase; German; Croatian; contrastive analysis;

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyses the structure and volume of noun phrases with prepositional comple-ments, the realization of the syntactic and semantic functions of the German indefinite and definite articles in their Croatian equivalents, as well as the head noun valency and semantic functions of prepositional complements. The analysis is based on a corpus of examples excerpted from literary works of German and Croatian authors. The existence of gramma-tical articles in German, their non-existence in Croatian and the differently developed case-systems are basic distinctive marks in the noun and prepositional phrase of the two languages. The Croatian equivalent of the German prepositional complement is a preposition-nal or, less frequently, a noun prhase. The prepositional equivalent shows in most cases difference in preposition and case.

  • Issue Year: XVII/2016
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 207-234
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: Croatian