Polarne upitne rečenice u hrvatskome u dijakronijskoj i arealno–tipološkoj perspektivi
Polar Interrogative Clauses in Croatian in a Diachronic and Areal–Typological Perspective

Summary/Abstract: Based on linguistic literature, corpus data and elicitation, this paper offers a description of polar question coding strategies in Croatian and presents their diachronic development. Under the assumption that pragmatically motivated features such as polar question markers are areally diffuse, Croatian is put in the context of European languages. An overview of interrogative constructions in selected ancient and modern languages is presented, showing that there are certain areal tendencies, which are reflected in Croatian as well, and that the development of particular interrogative constructions in Croatian may be interpreted in accordance with these tendencies.

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