The comparative genitive in the Chakavian Croatian Medieval poetry

Abstract

This paper gives an analysis of the syntactic function of the comparative genitive in the Old Croatian language. The research is based on a corpus of Croatian medieval poetry. The confirmations of the comparative genitive are provided together with its syntactic functions and positions in sentences (verses). A special emphasis is put on the non-prepositional comparative genitive in the function of the adverbial of comparison. Its usage is archaic in the modern Croatian language.

Keywords

• Old Croatian language
• the comparative genitive
• syntactic function of the comparative genitive
• non-prepositional comparative genitive
• Croatian medieval poetry