Condensation with Deverbative Nouns with Proposition in Bosnian Language Cover Image

Kondenzacija deverbativnim imenicama s prijedlogom u bosanskom jeziku: Deverbativna imenica s prijedlogom kao kondenzator vremenske klauze
Condensation with Deverbative Nouns with Proposition in Bosnian Language

Author(s): Elmira Resić
Subject(s): Syntax, Semantics, South Slavic Languages
Published by: Institut za jezik
Keywords: syntax; condensation; nominalisation; deverbative noun; propositions; time clauses; Bosnian language;

Summary/Abstract: One of the most important language principles – the principle of economics – opened the possibility that semantically the same contents can be shown by various language tools. Thus, instead of the predicative units that constitute the sentence, unpredicative units (syntax and syntagms) may appear with the value of the sentence content. In the role of an unpredicative unit, a noun is often derived from a deep verbal structure. This is a deverbative noun, which most often appears in the condensation process with propositions. In these cases, the sentence is condense by deverbative noun or noun derived from adjective. When a deep verbal structure is condense using deverbative nouns and those derived from an adjective, we talk about nominalization. Nominalization processes are an integral part of language, and in particular they encounter an administrative style that, due to its function, has established methods of expression and composition. Although deverbative noun can appear without proposition (only case form), the proposition form is more often and it allows interpretation of the deep verbal structure because propositions become signals of a certain deep meaning.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 29
  • Page Range: 115-137
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Bosnian