Open AccessSemantics, analogy and alternation capacity of syntactic structures
Author(s) -
S Zivojin Stanojcic
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
južnoslovenski filolog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0763
pISSN - 0350-185X
DOI - 10.2298/jfi1369245s
Subject(s) - analogy , linguistics , computer science , object (grammar) , action (physics) , cognitive linguistics , alternation (linguistics) , transformational grammar , grammar , cognition , psychology , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , neuroscience
Departing from examples found in the language of Njegoš and later writers from a broader area, and on the theoretical premises of cognitive linguistics as well as on transformational grammar methodology, author is discussing the syntactic and semantic elements that enable the alternations of conjunctions gde, što, kako and da - mutually and with other dependent clauses conjunctions the semantic basis of which are the notions “cause”, “space”, “manner of an action” and “object of an action”. According to author, in the given process, with inner linguistic semantic and analogical factors, the idiolectal experience of speaker / writer (listener / reader) and his/her knowledge of language units in the common language of the given society - have the most important role in the event of language perception