O VALENTNOSTI IMENICA U HRVATSKOME JEZIKU
ON THE VALENCY OF NOUNS IN THE CROATIAN LANGUAGE

Summary/Abstract: The “valency” of words is their ability to open a place in the sentence to other words with very distinct characteristics. The word “valency” most commonly refers to verb valency because the verb is the structural center of the sentence. Considerable attention is devoted to the valency of verbs, while the valency of nouns and adjectives remains unjustly neglected in scientific research. However, it is necessary to study the valency of nouns in order to distinguish types of noun phrases and the mechanisms of their formation, as well as how they function in a sentence. The syntagmatic level is crucial to the expression of many particular meanings. It is therefore necessary to study case semantics as well as the syntagmatic relationships of words that form sentences. This article explains how different meanings are expressed by noun phrases in different cases.

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