Open AccessOn the modifier razgovetno
Author(s) -
Milka Ivić
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
južnoslovenski filolog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0763
pISSN - 0350-185X
DOI - 10.2298/jfi0460001i
Subject(s) - serbian , linguistics , predicate (mathematical logic) , argument (complex analysis) , vocabulary , expression (computer science) , speech act , philosophy , history , computer science , biochemistry , chemistry , programming language
A problem not previously considered is whether the actual Standard Serbian vocabulary of manner adverbs coincides with the one attested in Vuk Karadzic' times. Pointing to some relevant facts concerning the co-occurrence of the speech act verbs with the manner modifier razgovetno, this paper not only delineates the differences in the expression of such a manner modification between the earlier stages of Standard Serbian and the contemporary language but also provides a novel argument for the validity of the author's claim (published in one of her previous articles) that it is theoretically as well as pragmatically important to distinguish between the partial and the total types of predicate modifiers