SINTAKSIČKA SINONIMIKA GLAGOLSKIH OBLIKA ZA OZNAČAVANJE PROŠLIH RADNJI U „PRIČANJIMA VUKA DOJČEVIĆA“
SYNTAX SYNONYMS OF VERB FORMS FOR MARKING PAST ACTIONS IN "STORIES TOLD BY VUK DOJČEVIĆ"

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines the usage of the forms of past tense in the language of Stefan Mitrov Ljubiša. Based on the syntactic-semantic analysis of the examples excerpted from "The Stories Told by Vuk Dojčević", and having compared it with the situation in the contemporary literary language and the speech of the writer's homeland, the author concludes that, in terms of verb syntax, the language of the selected work is significantly different from the contemporary one, which is rather simplified, especially in urban areas. The author has identified the presence of the relative perfect, the truncated perfect and plus quamperfect – existing in parallel, as complete or incomplete syntactic synonyms. There is a high frequency of the narrative present, but also forms that are in retreat in the modern language – the imperfect and aorist, and the presence of modes, imperatives and potentials, used with temporal meaning – which give the narration a specific stylistic mark.

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