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Квантификовање квалитета у (не)предикатским екскламативним реченицама
Quantifying Quality in (Non)-Predicative Exclamatory Sentences

Author(s): Milanka J. Babić
Subject(s): Syntax, Lexis, Semantics, South Slavic Languages, Philology
Published by: Филолошки факултет Универзитета у Бањој Луци
Keywords: exclamatory; expressivity; syntactic conversion; interrogative-relative pronouns; gradual particles; quantifying quality;

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyses the type of exclamatory sentences formed by the interrogative-relative pronouns of kakav, kakva, kakvo, koji, koja, koje, koliki, kolika, and koliko and pronominal adverbs of kako, tako, koliko, toliko, and sto as quantifying premodifiers of the meaning of a quantifying semantics lexeme (noun, adjective, adverb, and, implicitly, verb), which results in a combination of expressively pronounced quality, marked by the emotional-evaluative attitude of the speaker. Therefore, the analysis of such sentences requires a multiple-aspect approach – in terms of the syntactic plan, they are determined in relation to homoform interrogative sentences, whereas the functioning of their singled out models is checked in a corpus from the semantic-stylistic aspect, with the structural-descriptive methodological procedure being the basic one.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 17
  • Page Range: 15-33
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Serbian