The Simple Future Tense in the Transformational Grammar of Serbo-Croat Cover Image

Prosti futur u transformacionoj gramatici srpskohrvatskog jezika
The Simple Future Tense in the Transformational Grammar of Serbo-Croat

Author(s): Stanimir Rakić
Subject(s): Syntax, South Slavic Languages, Philology
Published by: Institut za jezik
Keywords: Serbo-Croatian language; grammar; simple future tense; modal verb; transformation;

Summary/Abstract: I show in this paper that the forms of simple future in Serbo-Croatian can be derived by two independently motivated transformations: Pronoun Drop and Enclictic Placement. This result is an important generalization about the structure of Serbo-Croatian sentences. It well illustrates the power of transformational analysis.

  • Issue Year: 14/1985
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 139-143
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Serbian