- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: A Functional Approach to Croatian Passive Types
- Authors:
- Kučanda, Dubravko (45566)
Journal: Suvremena lingvistika
Number: 34
ISSN: 0586-0296
Volume: 2
Year: 1992
Pages: from 175 to 184
Number of references: 32
Language: hrvatski
Summary: This paper argues that from a typological-functional point
ofview Croatian has three rather than two passive types, i.e.,
aperiphrastic passive, reflexive passive with a nominativelymarked patient,
and a reflexive passive with a accusativelymarked patient. Subjectivization
of patient and subject-verbagreement are not taken in this paper as
critical properties ofpassive constructions. Evidence in support of this
claim isadduced from languages with a similar or identical
constructiontype.
Keywords: Formalism, functionalism, passive constructions, subjectivization, Agent, Patient, topicalization, foregrounding, backgrounding.
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: Prototype Approach to (Direct) Object Relevance in a
Functional Framework
- Authors:
- Brdar, Mario (126035)
Journal: Suvremena lingvistika
Number: 34
ISSN: 0586-0296
Volume: 2
Year: 1992
Pages: from 41 to 61
Number of references: 40
Language: hrvatski
Summary: The present paper deals with some of the problems in
accountingfor the degrees of the relevance of syntatic functions such
assubject and object with particular regard to the Amsterdamfunctional
model developed by Dik. Prototype theory is tested forits compatibility
with such a functional framework. It is foundthat a modified version of
this theory could be usefully appliedin solving some problems that marginal
direct objects pose inEnglish, German, Croatian and Hungarian.
Keywords: Functional grammar, syntatic functions, direct object, prototype theory, English, German, Croatian, Hungarian.
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: FG and prototype theory: a case study from English,
German, Croatian and Hungarian
- Authors:
- Brdar, Mario (126035)
- Brdar-Szabo, Rita
Journal: Working Papers in Functional Grammar
Number: 51
Year: 1993
Pages: from 1 to 32
Number of references: 80
Language: engleski
Summary: The intellectual affinity between protype theory and the
Praguianapproach is taken as a clue in suggesting solutions to someproblems
that current functional models meet in their account ofsyntactic functions,
especially Dik's Functional Grammar. Thesecond part of the paper examines
whether an adequatelyconstrained version of the prototype approach can be
successfullyapplied to an account of syntactic function assignment. This
isexemplified with language data from English, German, Croatian
andHungarian.
Keywords: Prototype theory, functionalism, centre and periphery, Functional Grammar, syntactic function.
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: Synonymy and Interlanguage Studies
- Authors:
- Brdar-Szabo, Rita
- Brdar, Mario (126035)
Journal: International Review of Appliend Linguistics in Language
Teaching (IRAL)
Number: 4
ISSN: 0019-042
Volume: 31
Year: 1993
Pages: from 323 to 329
Number of references: 23
Language: njemački
Summary: The paper addresses the question of the interrelation
betweensynonymy theories and two disciplines concerned withinterlanguage -
contrastive lexicology and language contractstudies. It is claimed that a
dynamic notion of synonymy is aprerequisite for any realistic approach
these two disciplines areinterested in. A dynamic concept of synonymy
cannot, on the oderhand, be worked out if the results of contrastive
lexicology andlanguage contact studies are disregarded.
Keywords: Synonymy, contrastive analysis, contrastive lexicology, language in contact, semantic adaptation of loan words, equivalence.
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: Some Thoughts on the Assymetry in the Productivity of Two
Types of Suffixation: Agent Nouns and Patient Nouns
- Authors:
- Brdar, Mario (126035)
- Brdar-Szabo, Rita
Journal: Zeitchrift fuer Phonetik, Sprachwissenschaft und
Kommunikationsforschung
Number: 3
ISSN: 0044-331
Volume: 44
Year: 1991
Pages: from 351 to 356
Number of references: 24
Language: njemački
Summary: This paper investigates an asymetry between agent nouns
andpatient nouns in a cross-linguistic perspective. It ishypothesized that
the greater productivity of agent nounscorrelates with differences in
selectional restrictions imposedby verbs functioning as bases.
Keywords: Word formation, ergative hypothesis, agent nouns, patient nouns, selectional restrictions, transitivity, suffixation.
- Type of paper
: Paper in journal
Title: Grammatical models in dictionaries - the lexicon in
grammatical models
- Authors:
- Brdar, Mario (126035)
Journal: Filologija
Number: 22
ISSN: 0449-363x
Year: 1994
Pages: from 287 to 296
Number of references: 29
Language: hrvatski
Summary: The article discusses the status of the lexicon within a
number of linguistic models. Models are typologized according to the
relative prominence of the lexicon and their potential in the preparation
of various dictionaries. A general, holistically organized,
lexico-grammatical description of a given language as a preliminary stage
in the process of preparing various grammatical handbooks and dictionaries
is argued for.
Keywords: lexicon, grammatical models,
- Type of paper
: Paper in proceedings
Title: How tough is tough movement to typologize?
- Authors:
- Brdar, Mario (126035)
- Brdar-Szabo, Rita
- Editors
- Mair, Christian
- Marcus, Manfred
Proceedings title: New Departures in Contrastive Linguistics
Language: engleski
Place: Innsbruck, Austrija
Year: 1992
ISBN/ISSN: 3-85124-159-2
Pages: from 105 to 114
Meeting: New Departures in Contrastive Linguistics, Franzens-University of Innsbruck
Held: from 05/10/91 to 05/12/91
Summary: It is demonstrated that Comrie and Matthews' (1990)
typology oftough-movement constructions is in need of revision.
English,German and Croatian data presented in the paper show that takinga
broader perspective (including correlation between semantic,morphological
and syntactic features) is necessary if a coherentaccount of this
construction type is to be achieved in across-linguistic perspective.
Keywords: Object-to-subject-raising, prepositional infinitive, predicate-argument structure.
Other: Ovaj bi se rad mogao alternativno klasificirati i kao rad
učasopisu jer su izabrani i recenzirani radovi objavljeni utematskom broju
časopisa Innsbrucker Beitraege zurKulturwissenschaft, Anglistische Reihe
Band 4.
- Type of paper
: Paper in proceedings
Title: Some Peculiarities in the Distribution of Agent Nouns and
Patient nouns in a cross-linguistic perspective
- Authors:
- Brdar-Szabo, Rita
- Brdar, Mario (126035)
- Editors
- Mair, Christian
- Marcus, Manfred
Proceedings title: New Departures in Contrastive Linguistics
Language: njemački
Place: Innsbruck, Austrija
Year: 1992
ISBN/ISSN: 3-85124-159-2
Pages: from 251 to 259
Meeting: New Departures in Contrastive Linguistics, Franzens-University of Innsbruck
Held: from 05/10/91 to 05/12/91
Summary: This paper addresses an asymetry in the distribution of
agent andpatient nouns in English, German, Croatian, Hungarian and
Russianas one of the pieces of evidence needed to account for
theinteraction between word formation and syntax.
Keywords: Agent nouns, patient nouns, productivity, word formation, suffixation.
Other: Ovaj bi se rad alternativno mogao klasificirati i kao rad
učasopisu jer su izabrani irecenzirani radovi objavljeni utematskom broju
časopisa Innsbrucker Beitraege zurKulturwissenschaft, Anglistische Reihe
Band 4.
- Type of paper
: Paper in proceedings
Title: Contrastive Analysis and Some Traditional Grammatical
Categories
- Authors:
- Kučanda, Dubravko (45566)
- Editors
- Dudok, Daniel
- Tir, Mihal
Proceedings title: Kontrastivna jezička istraživanja
Language: hrvatski
Place: Novi Sad
Year: 1991
ISBN/ISSN: 0352-1745
Pages: from 31 to 37
Meeting: IV simpozijum Kontrastivna jezička istraživanja
Held: from 12/08/89 to 12/09/89
Summary: This paper attempts to show how contrastive analysis of
formallyand functionally similar constructions can shed new light on
thedescription of one of the languages. When a category or syntacticprocess
is described within a single language some propertiesseem to be criterial
(necessary and sufficient). However, whenthis category is confronted with
the identical category inanother language, it often turns out that these
properties arenot criterial from a cross-linguistic perspective.
Keywords: Contrastive analysis, grammatical categories, syntactic processes, relative pronouns, passive constructions.
- Type of paper
: Paper in proceedings
Title: A Contrastive Wiew of Control: In Search of a New Approach
- Authors:
- Brdar-Szabo, Rita
- Brdar, Mario (126035)
- Editors
- Madl, Antal
- Gottschalk, Hans-Werner
Proceedings title: Jahrbuch der Ungarischen Germanistik
Language: njemački
Place: Budapest/Bonn
Year: 1992
ISBN/ISSN: 1217-0216
Pages: from 239 to 258
Summary: It is argued on the basis of a comparison of German
infinitivalsand their Hungarian equivalents that an integrated approach
tocomplementation systems must be based on syntactic, semantic andpragmatic
information both in matrix and embedded structures.
Keywords: control theory, complementation system, infinitival clause, empty categories, implicit arguments, contrastive analysis.
Other: Jarbuch der Ungarischen Germanistik ne uklapa se dobro ni u
jednuod predloženih vrsta radova. Radi se o godišnjaku koji zajednoizdaju
ELTE Germanisches Institut (Budimpešta) i DeutscherAustaushtausch Dienst
(Bonn).
- Type of paper
: Paper in proceedings
Title: Object Raising in English and Serbo-Croatian
- Authors:
- Brdar, Mario (126035)
- Editors
- Dudok, Daniel
- Tir, Mihal
Proceedings title: Kontrastivna jezička istraživanja
Language: hrvatski
Place: Novi Sad
Year: 1991
ISBN/ISSN: 0352-1745
Pages: from 278 to 285
Meeting: IV simpozijum Kontrastivna jezička istraživanja
Held: from 12/08/89 to 12/09/89
Summary: An account of the surface syntax of object-raising
orTough-Movement structures is followed by their comparison withthe data
from Serbo-Croatian. Without going into relative meritsand shortcomings of
various analyses proposed for thesestructures the results of the
contrastive analysis are put into awider typological perspective. The
severe restrictions on thiskind of structures found in Serbo-Croatian are
argued tocorrelate with its free word order, richer case system andgreater
semantic transparency.
Keywords: Object raising, direct object, contrastive analysis, word order, case system, semantic transparency, prepositional infinitive, perspectivization.
- Type of paper
: Paper in proceedings
Title: Object assignment in Functional Grammar of Croatian
revisited
- Authors:
- Brdar, Mario (126035)
- Editors
- Engberg-Pedersen, Elisabet
- Falster - Jakobsen, Lisbeth
- Schack-Rasmussen, Lone
Proceedings title: Function and Expression in Functional Grammar
Language: engleski
Place: Berlin-New York
Year: 1994
ISBN/ISSN: 3-11-013407-1
Pages: from 109 to 126
Meeting: 4th International Conference on Functional Grammar
Held: from 06/25/90 to 06/29/90
Summary: The paper challenges the Functional Grammar view that
Object assignment is irrelevant in a functional grammar of Croatian.
Instead of a dichotomous distinction between Object assignment and
nonassignment, the paper advocates a typological continuum along which
languages can be ordered according to the degree of object relevance.
Keywords: functional grammar, syntatic functions, object,
- Type of paper
: Paper in proceedings
Title: Contrastive Linguistics at the Croassroads of Applied and
theoretical linguistics
- Authors:
- Kučanda, Dubravko (45566)
- Editors
- Pintarić, Neda
- Mihaljević-Đigunović, Jelena
Proceedings title: Primjenjena lingvistika danas
Language: hrvatski
Place: Zagreb
Year: 1994
ISBN/ISSN: 953-96391-0-7
Pages: from 15 to 23
Meeting: Primijenjena lingvistika danas
Held: from 04/15/94 to 04/16/94
Summary: The paper argues that contrastive analysis could not
contribute much to the description of the languages being contrasted
because of the limitations of its methodology. The methodology of
contrastive linguistics is then described and compared with the methodology
of contrastive analysis on the one hand and the methodology of typological
research on the other ahdn. it is argued that contrastive linguistics can
give a more adequate description of the two languages being contrasted and
thus serve as a good starting point for typological research, as well as
for writers of educationally oriented grammars.
Keywords: contrastive analysis, contrastive linguistics, typology, pedagogical grammar,
- Type of paper
: Summary in proceedings
Title: The Semantic Diversity of Subjects in English, German, and
Croatian
- Authors:
- Kučanda, Dubravko (45566)
- Editors
- Mair, Christian
- Marcus, Manfred
Proceedings title: New Departures in Contrastive Linguistics
Language: engleski
Place: Innsbruck, Austrija
Year: 1991
Pages: from 41 to 41
Meeting: New Departures in Contrastive Linguistics, Franzens-University of Innsbruck
Held: from 05/10/91 to 05/12/91
Summary: Contrastive studies of English and German have shown that
thenumber of semantic roles that can be mapped onto the syntacticfunction
subject is larger in English than in German. A similarcomparison of English
and Croatian shows that the latter patternslike German. The paper argues
that quantitative and qualitativedifferences between English, German and
Croatian emanate from theinterrelatedness of such typological parameters as
case markingsystems, word order freedom, opaque vs. transparent coding
ofsemantic functions, etc.
Keywords: Semantic diversity, subject, English, German, Croatian, qualitative and quantitative differences, coding of semantic functions, case marking, word order, semantic transparency.
- Type of paper
: Summary in proceedings
Title: Grammatical Models in Dictionaries - the Lexicon in
grammatical models
- Authors:
- Brdar, Mario (126035)
Proceedings title: Teorija i praksa izradbe jednojezičnih hrvatskih rječnika
Language: hrvatski
Place: Zagreb
Year: 1993
Pages: from 37 to 37
Meeting: Teorija i praksa izradbe jednojezičnih hrvatskih rječnika
Held: from 11/18/93 to 11/19/93
Summary: The status of the lexicon is examined in a number of
currentlinguistic models aspiring to attaining the status of acoherent and
self-contained theory (cognitive grammar, generativegrammar, functional
grammar, valency grammar). Linguistic modelsare evaluated with regard to
their usefulness indictionary-making.
Keywords: Dictionary, lexicon, grammatical models, gramatical interface, grammatical information in dictionaries, grammatical thesaurus.
- Type of paper
: Summary in proceedings
Title: On some minor differences that turn up to be major ones
- Authors:
- Kučanda, Dubravko (45566)
- Editors
- Braecke, Chris
Proceedings title: 5th International Conference on Functional Grammar
Language: engleski
Place: Antwerpen, Belgija
Year: 1992
Pages: from 36 to 36
Meeting: 5th International Conference on Functional Grammar
Held: from 08/24/92 to 08/28/92
Summary: For nearly ten years the relevance of Subject and
Objectassignment to the grammar of the so-called Serbo-Croatianlanguage has
been a matter of considerable dispute between thepresent author and Dik and
Gvozdanović. This paper providesevidence which shows that Croatian and
Serbian differ withrespect to a number of syntatic /semantic/pragmatic
processes,all of which point to important typological differences
betweenthe two languages that have so far been misleadingly
called"Serbo-Croatian", "Croato-Serbian", "Croatian or Serbian", etc.
Keywords: Subject and Object assignment, Croatian, Serbian, passivization, infinitivization, subject and object control, descriptive and typological adequacy.
- Type of paper
: Summary in proceedings
Title: What is a Dative of Possession?
- Authors:
- Kučanda, Dubravko (45566)
Proceedings title: 28th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea
Language: engleski
Place: Leiden, Nizozemska
Year: 1995
Meeting: 28 th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea
Held: from 08/31/95 to 09/02/95
Summary: Possessive dative is a notion which occurs in the
description of many languages that have overt case marking distinctions
between nominatives (typical subjects), accusatives (typical direct
objects) and datives (typical indirect objects). The basic ideas lurking
behind the term possessive dative are that it is semantically equivalent to
possessive determiners or genitives and that it can be used only with a
limited set of nouns, which is usually restricted to nouns denoting
inalienable possession (e.g. kinship terms and body parts). This paper
argues that possessive datives are not derived from the same source as
possessive determiners or genitives and that they are therefore not
semantically and pragmatically equivalent with them. The evidence in
support of this claim will be mainly adduced from Croatian, but a
comparison will also be made with some equivalent constructions in Dutch,
German and English. More specifically, it will be argued that the so-called
dative of possession is a pragmatic device which enables the speaker to
empathize with the referent of the dative, that is, to present the state
of affairs expressed by the predication from the point of view of the
referent of the dative.
Keywords: dative of possession, semantic and pragmatic equivalence, empathy,
- Type of paper
: Ph.D.
Title: Infitival Complement Clauses and Core Grammatical
Relations in English, German, Croatian and Hungarian
Faculty: Filozofski fakultet Sveučillište u Zagrebu
Author: BRDAR MARIO
Date of defense: 06/09/95
Language: engleski
Number of pages: 357
Summary: The introductory chapter outlines the range of the
phenomena to be discussed as well as the initial hypothesis concerning a
tight correlation between certain morphsyntactic phenomena. The data
adduced as well as the number of interim conclusions justify the conclusion
concerning thelink between the relevance of subject andobject in English,
German, Croatian and Hungarian and the productivity of certain types of
infinitival complements in these four languages.
Keywords: syntactic functions, subject, object, complementation system, infinitival clauses, contrastive linguistics, functional grammar,
