Abstract: The article presents an analysis of the over 12,000 occurrences of fail and failure followed by to in the 100m-word British National Corpus. In its lexical use, fail is a negative-implicative verb of ...

Abstract: In this article I examine some metonymic aspects of the semantics of Croatian connectives introducing adverbial clauses of cause, condition, purpose, and concession. The analysis leans on the theory o...

Abstract: Ovaj rad nastoji prikazati teoriju gramatike dijaloga njemačkog lingvista Franza Hundsnurschera. U prvom dijelu rada predstavljeni su osnovni pojmovi i postavke gramatike dijaloga, njezin odnos prema ...

Abstract: The present study – developed within the cognitive framework – provides a description and explanation of the semantic potential offered by the Basse Mandinka BANTA construction (i.e. a verbal gram for...

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: Sekundarnim se prijedlozima u ovome radu smatraju prijedlozi koji porijeklo vuku iz neke druge vrste riječi, a u istome se obliku u suvremenome jeziku upotrebljavaju i kao leksičke i kao gramatičke je...

Abstract: Ausgangspunkt des vorliegenden Beitrags ist die feldmäßige Beschreibung des Passivs. Dabei erscheint es notwendig, das Passiv-Makrofeld in die Passiv-Mikrofelder 1 [– Modalfaktor] und 2 [+ Modalfaktor...