Semantics, analogy and alternation capacity of syntactic structures

Abstract

Departing from examples found in the language of Njegoš and later writers from a broader area, and on the theoretical premises of cognitive linguistics as well as on transformational grammar methodology, author is discussing the syntactic and semantic elements that enable the alternations of conjunctions gde, što, kako and da - mutually and with other dependent clauses conjunctions the semantic basis of which are the notions “cause”, “space”, “manner of an action” and “object of an action”. According to author, in the given process, with inner linguistic semantic and analogical factors, the idiolectal experience of speaker / writer (listener / reader) and his/her knowledge of language units in the common language of the given society - have the most important role in the event of language perception.

Keywords

• formal mark
• dependent clause
• conjunctions
• causal clause
• explicative clause
• spacial clause
• relative clause
• participle
• complement
• determinant
• transform