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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Brač, Ivana
• Birtić, Matea

Titel

Valency patterns of manner of speaking verbs in Croatian

Ist Teil von

• Open Linguistics, 2023-07, Vol.9 (1), p.223-55

Ort / Verlag

De Gruyter

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

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Electronic Journals Library

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• Manner of speaking verbs denote the transfer of a message through speech, emphasizing the volume, intensity, comprehensibility, psychophysical condition of the speaker, and/or the impression that the speaker leaves on the hearer. In this article, verbs are semantically divided into four subclasses: 1. Verbs with emphasis on volume, 2. verbs of incomprehensible speaking, 3. verbs of meaningless speaking and complaining, and 4. verbs with emphasis on emotional component. Their syntactic peculiarities have been extensively researched in English, while no special attention has been paid to these verbs in Croatian. It is stated that in Croatian they are monovalent verbs. However, these verbs can be bivalent, and even trivalent. The recipient can be expressed by a dative complement within all four semantic subclasses. With the verbs of loud speaking and verbs with negative emotions, it can be expressed by a prepositional complement ‘at’ + accusative and ‘after’ + instrumental. The theme can be expressed by a quotation and a clausal complement, a prepositional complement ‘about’ + locative, an accusative complement, sometimes a prepositional complement ‘against’ + genitive, ‘for’ + accusative, and with fewer verbs with prepositional phrases ‘for’ + instrumental or ‘over’ + instrumental. Interestingly, there are certain restrictions for the complements’ combination within the same clause, which are described in more detail in the article.