VEZNICI I JUNKTORI U BOSANSKOM JEZIKU – TEORIJSKO I TERMINOLOŠKO RAZGRANIČENJE
CONJUNCTIONS AND JUNCTORS IN BOSNIAN LANGUAGE – THEORETICAL AND TERMINOLOGICAL DISTINCTION

Summary/Abstract: In the grammatical literature different meanings are ascribed to the term conjunction. It is considered both as a type of word and as a part of a sentence. This ambiguity almost always results in making conjunctions as types of word and conjunctions as parts of a sentence identical. This paper introduced the theoretical and terminological distinction between the two meanings. After consideration of the terms that have previously been used in linguistics for naming connecting words, the term conjunction is kept for conjunctions as types of words, and for connecting words at the sentence level the term junctor has been chosen. Precize definitions of conjunction and junctor have been adopted. Junctors are defined as words and functionally related groups of words that connect homofunctional units in a simple or complex sentence, or that introduce a dependent clause in a complex sentence structure. In accordance with it, conjunctions are defined as invariable words in the sententence always functioning as junctors and they do not perform the function of any basic sentence elements (subject, predicate, object, adverbial, attribute, apposition).

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