Complex Verbal Predicates and Word Order in the Croatian Kajkavian Literary Language

Abstract

Eulogies have a long tradition in Latin texts printed in the Western European circle, in which they usually appear as Sermo funebris. Kajkavian eulogies usually have the titles mertvečko prodečtvo (prodičtvo), prodeka sprevodna, spomenek and žalosno govorenje. They show a high degree of authorial freedom that is conditioned by social codes and the writer’s social status. The paper provides an analysis of word order in co-sentences with complex verbal predicates. In a corpus of printed texts in the Croatian Kajkavian literary language the order of syntactic units of complex verbal predicates are determined, as well as the place of the complex verbal predicate in a co-sentence and its relationship with other parts of the co-sentence.

Keywords

• : the Croatian Kajkavian literary language
• 17th century
• 18th century
• 19th century
• eulogies word order predicate complex verbal predicate infinitive modal verbs phase verbs