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Glagolski prilozi s načinskim značenjem u bosanskome jeziku
The Adverbial Participles with Modal Meaning in Bosnian

Author(s): Ismail Palić
Subject(s): Syntax, Semantics, South Slavic Languages
Published by: Institut za jezik
Keywords: Bosnian language; adverbial participles; modal meaning; syntactic units; semantic sub-classification;

Summary/Abstract: In this article the author argues about the possibilities of usage of the adverbial participles as a syntactic units that can specify the manner in which what is denoted by the predicate is done. It is showed that such usage of them is possible in the contemporary Bosnian language, and that such constructions can be subjected to the semantic sub-classification.

  • Issue Year: 23/2007
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 71-76
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Bosnian