LINGUIST List 13.578

Fri Mar 1 2002

Books: Slavic Linguistics

Editor for this issue: Dina Kapetangianni <dinalinguistlist.org>

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1. LINCOM EUROPA, New books: Slavic linguistics: THE RELATIVE CLAUSE IN SERBO-CROATIAN

Der Relativsatz im Serbokroatischen
(THE RELATIVE CLAUSE IN SERBO-CROATIAN)
SNJEZANA KORDIC
University of Muenster

This comprehensive study of relative clauses in Serbo-Croatian begins
with the selection and description of properties of such relative
clauses as are most frequently realized in various languages,
including Serbo-Croatian. These properties can therefore be considered
to belong to typical representatives of the relative clauses. The
author then analyses formal constituents of the antecedent which
determine the realization of the relative clause as restrictive or
non-restrictive. The non-typical relative clauses (e.g. free
relatives, extraposed relatives), the differentation of inflected from
uninflected relativizer (used with personal pronouns), adverbial
relativizers, and the replacement of the participle by the relative
clause in Serbo-Croatian are also described in this study. The corpus
composed of texts from the journalistic, bookish,
administrative-legal, and scientific styles has shown that several
interesting on-going changes can be perceived with regard to the most
typical relative pronoun in Serbo-Croatian. One of them is the
extension of the animate masculine into the inanimate (and
increasingly into the neuter) of the pronun as a means of
morphologically disambiguating the subject and object. The other
change concerns the possessive genitive of the pronoun. The study is
supplied with examples, charts, and an extensive
bibliography. [written in German]

ISBN 3 89586 573 7. 
LINCOM Studies in Slavic Linguistics 10. 
200 S. USD 80 / EUR 68 / � 48. (2nd printing)


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