Zanikanie bezokolicznika w języku serbskim. Wstępne rozpoznanie zagadnienia
The loss of the infinitive in Serbian. Preliminary issue

Summary/Abstract: The article concerns the loss of the infinitive in Serbian literary language and its gradual replacement by the construction da + praesens. The analyzed material consists of Serbian and Serbo-Croatian literature and goes from the Saint Sava’s texts - these are the first widely available texts of Serbian. The last text analyzed comes from the beginning of XXI century. The process of the loss of infinitive has been checked in the contexts in which it is possible to replace the infinitive form by the structure da + verb in the present tense without changing the meaning.

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