Abstract: The article deals with the modal verb shall in English legal discourse. The analysis of theoretical and factual data shows that shall performs a number of semantic functions in legal texts that violat...

Abstract: In most of the existing grammars of the Croatian language words are directly analyzed into clauses (or sentences), and therefore the sentence is taken as the main syntactic unit. Consequently, these g...

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to analyse the syntax of Polish nominal expressions in terms of what is known as the DP hypothesis (the idea that was discussed in Abney 1987). The fact that articles occupy t...

Abstract: U članku se raspravlja o komplementima pridjevskih predikata uvedenih pomoću prijedloga for i of. U literaturi je uobičajena praksa da se za prijedložni izraz s for kaže kako uvodi subjekt infinitiva ...

Abstract: U engleskom su jeziku koordinacijski veznici (both…and,  either…or, neither…nor i dr.) češći u pisanom nego u razgovornom diskursu, a osobito su uobičajeni u pisanom akademskom diskursu kojem osigurav...

Abstract: In this paper Gärdenfors’s geometric approach to meaning in natural language is compared to Jackendoff's algebraic one, and this is done against the backdrop of formal semantics. Ultimately, the paper...