Семантичка структура глагола држати (се) и његове контекстуалне реализације
The Semantic Structure of Verb Držati (se) and its Contextual Realizations

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with the meanings of verb držati (se) and its sentence patterns. The primary concern of the research is to examine the relation between the semantic poten tial of a verb and its different realizations and to determine the influence of lexical se mantics of complements. This verb can be an independent lexical unit (with the crucial characteristics of transitivity or reflexivity), the verb with incomplete meaning or desemantized. It is also a part of idioms and phraseologisms. Verb držati (se) denotes a wide range of meanings, from concrete to abstract ones, based on a metaphor from its basic spatial semantics. The specific meaning is determined by the adverbial complements and lexical-semantic characteristics of the subjects and direct objects, with the animacy as the most prominent one.

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