Upotreba glagolskoga priloga prošloga
The Use of the Perfective Verbal Adverb (Gerund)

Summary/Abstract: In this article I have examined the grammatical background of the normative language advice from the Croatian language reference book (Hrvatski jezični savjetnik, Zagreb, 1999.) according to which the perfective verbal adverb (gerund) has to be used only for the action that precedes the predicative action. After that I have examined the syntactic usage of the perfective verbal adverb on a corpus consisting of eight contemporary Croatian works of literature in order to see whether the above mentioned language advice is being used or not.

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