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Sintaktički i semantički položaj apozicije
The Syntactic and Semantic Position of Apposition

Author(s): Marija Znika
Subject(s): Syntax, Semantics, South Slavic Languages, Philology
Published by: Hrvatsko filološko društvo
Keywords: Syntax; Semantics; Position of Apposition; Croatian language;

Summary/Abstract: The paper considers the position of apposition in the sentence, as a syntactic unit made by transformation, and a unit that belongs to the surface of the syntactic structure of the sentence. The paper puts forward the syntactic relationship of the apposition with the attribute, and provides an in-depth analysis of its semantic relationship with the word that has caused its position in the syntactic structure. This relationship is different relative to the apposition having its position owing to a noun, nominalized word or nominal pronoun, i.e. a word with or without full meaning. If the apposition has obtained its position owing to a noun, then the relationship between this apposition and personal nouns differs from that with common nouns.

  • Issue Year: 55/2008
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 129-134
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Croatian