Novo normalno: O poimeničenim pridjevima u hrvatskome

master's thesis

• Title (english): The new normal: On substantivized adjectives in Croatian
• Author: Robert Sviben
• Mentor: Tatjana Pišković (mentor)
• Committee member: Ivan Marković (predsjednik povjerenstva)
• Committee member: Krešimir Bagić (član povjerenstva)
• Committee member: Tatjana Pišković (član povjerenstva)
• Granter: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; (Department of Croatian language and literature); Zagreb
• Defense date and country: 2023-09-08, Croatia
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: HUMANISTIC SCIENCES; Philology; Croatian Studies

Abstract

U ovome radu proučava se poimeničenje pridjeva, tj. sposobnost pridjevskih riječi da se pojavljuju samostalno na položaju glave imenske sintagme umjesto imenice koju prototipično modificiraju (npr. mladi, dobro). Budući da za hrvatski jezik dosad nije bilo opsežnijega rada koji bi se time bavio i s teorijskoga i s uporabnoga aspekta, rad je organiziran u dva dijela. U prvome se dijelu daje pregled vodećih lingvističkih teorija koje pretpostavljaju različite mehanizme u pozadini te pojave: sintaktičkoga pristupa s elipsom i nominalizacijom, morfološkoga pristupa s konverzijom i konstrukcijskoga pristupa s koercijom. U drugome se dijelu donosi gramatički opis hrvatskih poimeničenih pridjeva koji obuhvaća njihove morfološke značajke, uvjete ispuštanja imenica te posebna obilježja ljudskih i apstraktnih poimeničenih pridjeva. Na temelju korpusne analize pokazuje se da je riječ o frekventnoj i produktivnoj kompleksnoj pojavi koja u različitim stupnjevima istodobno zahvaća sintaktičku, morfološku i leksičku razinu. Nakraju se zaključuje da su poimeničeni pridjevi hibridna kategorija koju je teško objasniti u okviru samo jedne teorije ili tradicionalne gramatike.

Abstract (english)

This paper studies the substantivization of adjectives, i.e. the ability of adjectival words to appear independently at the head position of a noun phrase instead of the noun they prototypically modify (e.g. the young, the good). Since there has not been a comprehensive work on the Croatian language that would deal with this issue from both a theoretical and a practical point of view, the paper is organized in two parts. The first part gives an overview of the leading linguistic theories that assume different mechanisms behind this phenomenon: the syntactic approach with ellipsis and nominalization, the morphological approach with conversion, and the constructional approach with coercion. In the second part, a grammatical description of Croatian substantivized adjectives is presented, which includes their morphological characteristics, conditions of noun dropping, and special features of human and abstract substantivized adjectives. Based on the corpus analysis, it is shown that it is a frequent and productive complex phenomenon which, to varying degrees, simultaneously affects syntactic, morphological, and lexical level. Finally, it is concluded that substantivized adjectives are a hybrid category that is difficult to explain within the framework of only one theory or traditional grammar.

• Keywords: hrvatski pridjevi; elipsa; nominalizacija; konverzija; koercija
• Keywords (english): Croatian adjectives; ellipsis; nominalization; conversion; coercion
• Language: croatian
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:131:740638
• Study programme: Title: Croatian Language and Literature; specializations in: Teaching, Linguistics, Literature; Course: Linguistics; Study programme type: university; Study level: graduate; Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra hrvatskog jezika i književnosti (magistar/magistra hrvatskog jezika i književnosti)
• Type of resource: Text
• File origin: Born digital
• Access conditions: Open access
• Created on: 2023-09-10 08:20:21