WORD ORDER IN ENGLISH AND SERBIAN
WORD ORDER IN ENGLISH AND SERBIAN
Author(s): Jelisaveta ŠafranjSubject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Syntax, South Slavic Languages
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: word order; grammatical relations; case; English; Serbian;
Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with case and grammatical relations in English and Serbian. Serbian has a very rich case system involving the inflection for case of nouns, pronouns and adjectives. Since there are seven cases in Serbian, they bear the main burden of marking the syntactic function of a noun phrase and the word order is relatively free. However, in English nouns are not case marked and only the English pronominal system can be said to have the grammatical category of case and most of the grammarians would say that English word order is fixed. Due to their different nature, Serbian being a synthetic language and English an analytic one, word order seems to have different functional values in the two languages. In English it is the main syntactic means, while in Serbian it is mainly a pragmatic, textual and stylistic means.
Journal: Discourse and Interaction
- Issue Year: 4/2011
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 67-87
- Page Count: 21
- Language: English