ODNOS PRIJEDLOGA PREMA VEZNICIMA I JUNKTORIMA U BOSANSKOM JEZIKU
RELATIONS BETWEEN PREPOSITIONS, CONJUCTIONS AND JUNCTORS IN BOSNIAN

Summary/Abstract: This paper discusses relations between prepositions, conjunctions and junctors in Bosnian. Junctors are defined as words, or functionally related groups of words, that connect homofunctional units in a simple or complex sentence, or that introduce a dependent clause in a complex sentence structure. Conjunctions are defined as invariable words in the sentence. They functionas junctors, and do not perform the function of any basic sentence elements (subject, predicate, object, adverbial, attribute, apposition). The relation between conjunctions and junctors is succinctly summarized in the statement that all conjunctions can perform the function of junctors, but junctors are not always performed by conjunctions. Prepositions and conjunctions never have the same function in the sentence, and no words are both prepositions and conjunctions. Although a few words (such as osim, umjesto, namjesto) have been presented in grammatical literature as both prepositions and conjunctions, it is shown that these words are prepositions in every case. Even though prepositions as separate words in Bosnian never perform the function of junctor, analysis of the literature and corpus shows that prepositions can be a part of complex junctors with the structure preposition + conjunction.

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