Начинске и количинске реченице
Clauses of Manner and Quantity

Summary/Abstract: The author starts with the Classification of adverbial clauses into three sub-categories: a) clause with the information on the situational level (time and place), b) clauses with the information on motivational content (clause of intention, condition, concession, cause and consequence) and c) Clauses with qualitative and quantitative semantics (clauses of manner and quantity). In this first part of his paper the author describes clauses of manner categorizing them into their sub categories (12), providing patterns for each of them. He does not take into account the sentence »Sila otme zemlju i gradove, kamol’ meni konja otet’ neće«, which had been previously categorized as a clause of degree. In the second pant the author states that in the Serbo-Croatian studies the clauses of quantity (Uzeo je koliko je mogao da ponese) have not been, so far, treated as separate syntactic structures, parallel to other adverbial clauses, but .they were classified as those of manner, or they were not taken into consideration at all (as if they did not exist). Starting from the semantic criteria, the author in his classification establishes these hypotaxic structures as a separate semantic group (speaking in terms of Serbo-Croatian language), describing six semantic sub categories of these clauses.

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