The Instrumental Case in Croatian Grammars Until the End of the Nineteenth Century with an Emphasis on Comitative and Instrumental Meanings

Autor: Marijana Horvat, Ljiljana Šarić
Jazyk: chorvatština
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Rasprave: Časopis Instituta za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje
Volume 47
Issue 2
ISSN: 1331-6745
1849-0379
DOI: 10.31724/rihjj.47.2.2
Popis: U ovom radu razmatramo komitativnost i instrumentalnost kao semantičke kategorije te kako su obrađene u odabranim hrvatskim gramatikama od prve hrvatske gramatike, Kašićevih Institutiones linguae Illyricae (1604), do konca 19. stoljeća, odnosno do pojave Maretićeve Gramatike i stilistike hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika (1899) i pobjede hrvatskih vukovaca, što je utjecalo na promjenu dotadašnje jezične norme. Temeljno je pitanje kojim se bavimo u kontekstu razmatranih gramatika naznačuju li gramatički opisi podudaranje značenja komitativnost i instrumentalnost ili ih jasno razdvajaju. Na teorijskoj je razini podudaranje i preplitanje dvaju značenja objašnjivo postojanjem jedne šire konceptualne domene koja obuhvaća i društvo i sredstvo. Istraživanja, međutim, upućuju i na važnost jezičnoga kontakta, pa je dodatno pitanje odražavaju li se u gramatikama utjecaji (gramatičkih opisa) drugih jezika.
This analysis examines the comitative and instrument as semantic roles and how their language expressions were treated in accounts of the instrumental case in a selection of Croatian grammars, starting from the first grammar, Kašić’s Institutiones linguae Illyricae (Handbook of the Illyrian Language, 1604), until the end of the nineteenth century and Maretić’s grammar Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika (Grammar and Stylistics of Standard Croatian or Serbian, 1899) and the victory of the Croatian Vukovians, which influenced changes in the previous language norm. The main question discussed is whether grammatical descriptions indicate an overlap of the comitative and instrument meanings, or whether these meanings are clearly distinguished in the grammars examined. As argued in the theoretical part, the coincidence and intertwining of the two meanings observed in a number of different languages can be explained by assuming the existence of a broader conceptual domain that encompasses the meanings of both accompaniment and means. Previous research also indicates the importance of language contact, and for this reason we also consider the potential influence of descriptions of other languages on the accounts in the grammars studied. We also provide an overview of the accounts of the instrumental case beyond the two semantic roles. These accounts, among other things, implicitly or explicitly indicate vague borders between various meaning domains of the instrumental, including the border between accompaniment and means.
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