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Posvojni pridjevi i izražavanje posvojnosti
Possessive Adjectives and Expression of Possession

Author(s): Krešimir Mićanović
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Hrvatsko filološko društvo
Keywords: possessive adjectives; adjectives; semantic types

Summary/Abstract: This text discusses about semantic types of adjectives and their description in Croatian grammatical literature and schoolbooks. Particular attention is made to possessive adjectives from syntactic and semantic standpoint. Second part of this text discusses rules of possessive adjective use and possessive case use, and warns that insisting on use of possessive case instead of possessive adjective may in many cases annihilate relevant differences between them.

  • Issue Year: 2000
  • Issue No: 49-50
  • Page Range: 111-123
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Croatian