On the Anaphoric Potential of Some Linguistic Expression in Contemporary Serbo-Croat Cover Image

Anaforički potencijal nekih lingvističkih sredstava u savremenom srpskohrvatskom jeziku
On the Anaphoric Potential of Some Linguistic Expression in Contemporary Serbo-Croat

Author(s): Snežana Bilbija
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Lexis, Semantics, South Slavic Languages, Rhetoric
Published by: Institut za jezik
Keywords: contemporary Serbo-Croatian language; anaphoric potential; proform and null proform; linguistic expression; superficial identity;

Summary/Abstract: The central purpose of this article is to present some anaphoric processes in contemporary Serbo-Croat. The processes discussed are viewed only with respect to the linguistic context in which they are carried out either by means of proforms or null proforms. The term proform is used to cover such linguistic expressions as third person pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, certain adverbs etc. Null proforms are divided into two subtypes: the first includes cases arising from ellipsis under the condition of superficial identity between the antecedent segment and the segment to be anaphorized: the second covers cases which result from the deletion of constituents retrievable from the context. The possibility of free variation between some proforms and some null proforms is also mentioned in this article.

  • Issue Year: 13/1984
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 59-68
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Croatian, Serbian