Open AccessSYNTAX AND SEMANTICS OF K + DATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS IN THE LANGUAGE OF NJEGOS' LETTERS
Author(s) -
Sonja Nenezić
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
folia linguistica et litteraria/folia linguistica et litteraria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
0eISSN - 2337-0955
pISSN - 1800-8542
DOI - 10.31902/fll.27.2019.13
Subject(s) - dative case , linguistics , syntax , meaning (existential) , semantics (computer science) , computer science , field (mathematics) , philosophy , mathematics , epistemology , programming language , pure mathematics
The paper deals with a syntactic-semantic analysis of numerous and various examples of k+dative case constructions identified in the letters by Petar II Petrovic Njegos. As, in comparison to the situation nowadays, the research of the corpus showed that thereis a wider range of functions and meanings of the aforementioned construction, the author paid a significant attention to the competitively disposable language forms that have been put out of use in time. It is concluded that the k+dative case costructions in the language of Njegos' letters were found more often in the field of abstract rather than concrete directives, and even, when it comes to spatial relations, they have the meaning of adlativity, rather expressing the goal than the direction. On the one hand, this is conditioned by the historical development of the meanings and functions of thisconstruction, and on the other, it is deeply related to the nature of the epistolary discourse the author has analyzed for the purpose of the article