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Serbo-Croatian

The grammar-book begins with a section on phonology (vowels, consonants, accents). This is followed by a description of morphology (nominal: nouns, adjectives, pronouns, numerals ; verbal morphology). The syntax is presented in the third section, in which noun phrase, clause structure, coordination, subordination, negation, word order and discourse related phenomena are described. The volume also contains a sample text with interlinear transcription and translation and a bibliography. Serbo-Croatian has all the most important typological characteristics of the Slavonic languages, that is a rich inflectional morphology, an extensive agreement system, so-called free word order, a rich set of morphophonemic alternations, the pervasive aspectual opposition, a double negation, a reflexive possessive and so on. Some of the interesting specifics of Serbo-Croatian are: four accents with pitch and length involved (only Slovene among Slavonic languages has a somewhat similar system of accents) ; it has preserved a three-member system of deixis according to degrees of distance and with the same consonant alternation v/t/n by demonstrative pronouns, adverbs and even by so-called presentatives (only Macedonian among Slavonic languages has preserved the same system).

grammar; phonology; morphology; syntax; noun phrase; clause structure; coordination; subordination; negation; word order; discourse; deixis; demonstrative pronouns; adverbs; presentatives; Croatian; Serbo-Croatian

Inozemne recenzije o ovoj gramatici: The Slavonic and East European Review 77/1, London, 1999, 142-144 Roland Sussex | Zbornik Matice srpske za filologiju i lingvistiku 41/1, Novi Sad, 1998, 201-206 Miloš Kovačević | Revue des Études slaves 73/1, Paris, 2001, 252-254 Paul-Louis Thomas. Nakon prvog izdanja gramatike 1997. godine izišlo je drugo, neizmijenjeno izdanje 2006. godine.