Syntactic function of the participle in the croatian language of 15th / 16th century

Abstract

This article gives a detailed analysis of the syntactic function of the participle in the old Croatian language. Much attention has been given to the important linguistic change in the Croatian language of that time: transformation of inherited adjective-participle forms into verb-participle forms. The corpus is made up of three medieval Croatian texts about the knight Tundal: one Glagolitic from Petrises codex (1468.), and two Latin texts: one from the Vartal of Petar Lucić (end of the 16th century), and the other from Lulić’s codex (aprox. 1600).

Keywords

• Old Croatian Language
• participle
• syntactic function of participle
• Vision of Tundal