The Attributive Usage of Deverbative Nouns in the Bosnian Language (Exemplified with the Belletristic Style) Cover Image

Atributska upotreba deverebativnih imenica u bosanskome jeziku (na primjerima književnoumjetničkog stila)
The Attributive Usage of Deverbative Nouns in the Bosnian Language (Exemplified with the Belletristic Style)

Author(s): Mirela Omerović
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Syntax, South Slavic Languages
Published by: Institut za jezik
Keywords: deverbative noun; attributive usage; Bosnian language; belletristic style; syntactic category;

Summary/Abstract: In this text we tried so far to throw some light on the problem of un-congruent attribute in cases where his function is performed by a deverbative noun. The subject of this paper was the syntactic and semantic analysis of substantive phrases with the mentioned attribute, and the objective was to examine the noted grammatical types within the corpus of belletristic style. We came to a conclusion that the deverbative noun functioning as an attribute is a very frequent lexical instrument. It occurs in all dependent cases, in the form of a case or the prepositional-case form with different meanings. The research has shown an extreme dominance of the attribute in the genitive case, where the number of semantic types is most various. The attribute in the accusative case is far less represented, following are those in the locative and instrumental case, while the attribute in the dative case is extremely rare. According to the above mentioned, there is a need which imposes itself to us to further research these structures, which should include more aspects and models as well as the substance from other functional styles, in order to get a more completed view of their functioning. Nevertheless, the analysis of distribution within a style can also offer some valuable denotations of the importance of this syntactic category.

  • Issue Year: 22/2004
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 72-85
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Bosnian