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Author Alexander, Ronelle

Title Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, a grammar : with sociolinguistic commentary / Ronelle Alexander
Published Madison, WI : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 464 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Grammar -- 1 Alphabets 1 -- 1a The Cyrillic alphabet 1 -- 1b The Latin alphabet 2 -- 1c Spelling of proper names 3 -- 2 Pronunciation 3 -- 2a Pronunciation of vowels and consonants 3 -- 2b Accent 4 -- 3 Ekavian and ijekavian 4 -- 4 Conventions of citation used 5 -- 5 Nouns and gender 5 -- 5a Recognizing a noun's gender 5 -- 5b Gender in nouns of profession or nationality 6 -- 6 Personal pronouns 7 -- 7 Present tense of verbs 8 -- 7a Verb conjugation, introduction 8 -- 7b The verb biti 8 -- 8a Questions with question words 9 -- 8b "Yes-no" questions 10 -- 9 Presentative statements (ovo je, etc.) 10 -- 10 Conjunctions 11 -- 11 Adjectives, introduction 11 -- 11a Possessive pronominal adjectives 12 -- 11b Demonstrative pronominal adjectives (ovaj, taj, onaj) 12 -- 12 Word order 13 -- 12a The role of clitics 13 -- 12b The "XYZ" model of clitic placement 14 -- 13 Verb conjugation: the present tense 16 -- 14 Relationship between infinitive and present tense 17 -- 14a Potential accent shifts 17 -- 14b Type pisati 17 -- 14c Type vidjeti / videti 18 -- 14d Type piti 18 -- 14e Type kupovati 18 -- 14f The verb moci 18 -- 15 Verb forms of politeness 18 -- 16 Adjectives, continued 19 -- 16a Adjectives with single-syllable stems 19 -- 16b "Fleeting -a-" in adjectives; voicing assimilation 19 -- 16c Adjectives in -o 19 -- 17 Short and long forms of adjectives 20 -- 17a "Indefinite" vs "definite" 20 -- 17b "Short vs. long" and "indefinite vs. definite" 21 -- 18 Cases of nouns, introduction 21 -- 19 The vocative case 22 -- 20 The nominative case 22 -- 21 The accusative case 23 -- 21a Endings of nouns and adjectives 23 -- 21b Fleeting -a- in nouns, and possible accent shifts 24 -- 21c Accusative of interrogative pronouns 25 -- 22 The accusative of direct object 25 -- 23 The accusative with prepositions 25 -- 23a Accentuation of prepositional phrases 26 -- 23b The preposition za 26 -- 23c The preposition u and days of the week 26 -- 23d The preposition na 26 -- 24 Object pronouns: clitic and full forms 27 -- 24a Clitic (short form) object pronouns 27 -- 24b Full (long form) object pronouns 27 -- 25 Negation 28 -- 25a Negation of present tense verbs 28 -- 25b Negation of other parts of speech 29 -- 26 The conjunction da 29 -- 26a Da used to introduce statements 29 -- 26b Da after verbs of desire 30 -- 26c "Da + present" as possible infinitive replacement 30 -- 27 Infinitives 30 -- 27a Infinitives after another verb 31 -- 27b Infinitive subjects 31 -- 28 Verbal aspect, introduction 31 -- 29 Word order 32 -- 29a Subordinate clauses 32 -- 29b Pronoun objects of infinitives 33 -- 30 Present tense, continued 34 -- 30a Type davati 34 -- 30b Type teci 34 -- 31 Feminine nouns ending in a consonant 34 -- 31a Nouns with more than one gender 35 -- 32 Nominative plural 35 -- 32a Endings of nouns and adjectives 36 -- 32b Consonant shifts before -i 36 -- 32c Fleeting -a- in masculine nouns 37 -- 32d Accent shifts in the plural 38 -- 32e Addition of -ov- / -ev- 38 -- 32f "Soft" consonants 39 -- 32g Plurals of nouns ending in -in 39 -- 32h Added syllable in neuter plurals 40 -- 33 Accusative plural 40 -- 34 Prepositions, continued 40 -- 34a The preposition kroz 41 -- 34b The preposition uz 41 -- 34c The preposition na, continued 41 -- 35 Adverbs 41 -- 36 Pronominal adjectives, continued 42 -- 36a Interrogative pronominal adjectives 42 -- 36b Descriptive pronominal adjectives 43 -- 36c Jedan and the idea "one" 44 -- 37 Speaking of and to "people" 44 -- 37a Case endings of personal names 45 -- 37b Vi: singular or plural agreement? 45 -- 37c The Words for "person" and "people" 45 -- 38 The particle se and verbal usage, introduction 46 -- 39 Word order, continued 46 -- 40 Present tense, continued 48 -- 40a Type ici 48 -- 40b Type kazivati 48 -- 40c Type jesti 48 -- 40d The verbs sedeti and sjediti 48 -- 41 Possessive pronominal adjectives, continued 49 -- 41a Possessive adjectives referring to non-humans 49 -- 41b Derived possessive adjectives referring to humans 49 -- 42 Case forms, continued: the genitive case 50 -- 42a Endings of nouns and adjectives 50 -- 42b Changes in the stem of masculine nouns 51 -- 42c Short, long and longer adjective forms 52 -- 42d Genitive forms of pronoun objects 53 -- 42e Genitive forms of interrogative pronouns 53 -- 43 The genitive with prepositions 53 -- 43a Prepositions meaning "from": iz, od, s(a) 53 -- 43b Prepositions meaning "to, by": do, pored, kod 54 -- 43c The prepositions bez, izmedu and oko 55 -- 44 The genitive without prepositions 55 -- 44a The adnominal genitive 55 -- 44b The idea of possession 56 -- 44c Location indicators: evo, nema 57 -- 44d Identification of colors 58 -- 45 Accusative vs. genitive objects and partitive meaning 58 -- 46 Numbers: 2, 3, 4 58 -- 46a The "counting form" 59 -- 47 Masculine nouns ending in -o 59 -- 48 Subjectless sentences, introduction 60 -- 49 Adverbs and question words, continued 61 -- 50 Conjunctions, continued 62 -- 51 Word order: embedded questions 62 -- 52 Present tense, continued 64 -- 52a Type drzati 64 -- 52b Type doci 64 -- 52c The budem present of biti 64 -- 52d The verb htjeti / hteti 64 -- 52e Type pisati, continued 65 -- 52f Type uzeti 65 -- 53 Aspect, continued 65 -- 53a Aspect pairs related by suffixation 65 -- 53b Aspect pairs related by prefixation 66 -- 53c Usage of aspect in present tense forms 66 -- 54 Aspect pairs of motion verbs 67 -- 55 Motion verbs used with prepositions and adverbs 68 -- 55a Prepositions and the idea of motion 68 -- 55b Usage of motion verbs, with and without prepositions 69 -- 55c Question words concerning location and direction 69 -- 55d Motion verbs and tense meaning 70 -- 55e Infinitives following verbs of motion 70 -- 56 Negation, continued 70 -- 56a Negated verbs, negative pronouns and "double negation" 70 -- 56b Contrastive negation, review 71 -- 56c Negative conjunctions 72 -- 56d Negated questions, "tag" questions 72 -- 57 Genitive plural 73 -- 57a The genitive plural ending -a 73 -- 57b The genitive plural ending -i 74 -- 57c Nouns and adjectives in genitive plural 75 -- 58 Numbers: 5-10 and beyond 75 -- 58a Numbers up to 10, review 75 -- 58b Numbers beyond 10 76 -- 58c Number phrases as subject 76 -- 59 Partitive genitive, continued 77 -- 59a Adverbs of measure and count vs. mass nouns 77 -- 59b "Existentials": ima and nema 78 -- 59c "Distributive" po 79 -- 60 Verbs taking genitive objects 79 -- 61 Time expressions, continued 79 -- 61a Prepositions and adverbs of time and space 80 -- 61b Genitive adjective + noun expressions without preposition 80 -- 61c Time of the clock 81 -- 62 Non-negative pronouns 81 -- 63 Subjectless sentences, continued 82 -- 64 Clitic ordering within the XYZ model 82 -- 65 Present tense, continued 84 -- 65a Type pisati, continued 84 -- 65b Verbs which make no consonant shift 84 -- 65c Type slati 84 -- 66 Locative and dative cases 85 -- 66a Endings of nouns and adjectives 85 -- 66b Short, long, and longer adjective forms 86 -- 66c Dative-locative, interrogative pronouns 86 -- 66d Full form object pronouns, dative-locative 87 -- 66e Clitic form object pronouns: dative only 87 -- 66f Names of countries and languages 87 -- 67 The prepositions u and na with the locative case 88 -- 67a The prepositions u and na in the meaning "location" 88 -- 67b Specific nouns as "u-words" or "na-words" 89 -- 67c Case choice and ideas of motion vs. location 90 -- 67d Time expressions: the preposition u + months of the year 91 -- 68 Other prepositions with the locative case 91 -- 68a The prepositions o, po and pri 92 -- 69 Past tense, introduction 92 -- 70 Aspect, continued 93 -- 70a Aspect and the past tense 93 -- 70b Aspect and conjunctions 94 -- 71 Time expressions: the idea of duration 94 -- 72 Types of reflexive pronominal forms 95 -- 72a The pronominal possessive svoj 95 -- 72b The object pronouns sebe and sebi 96 -- 72c The pronominal form sam 96 -- 73 The dative case 97 -- 73a The dative of indirect object 97 -- 73b Verbs which take dative objects 98 -- 73c Motion verbs, prepositions and the dative 98 -- 73d Verbs meaning "like" 99 -- 73e Possessive dative 100 -- 73f Dative of "affect" 100 -- 73g Subjectless sentences and the dative case 101 -- 73h The verb ciniti se 102 -- 74 Se-verbs, continued 102 -- 75 Nouns with plural form but singular meaning: vrata, kola 103 -- 76 Word order: object pronouns and the XYZ model 104 -- 77 Present tense, continued 106 -- 77a Type razumjeti 106 -- 77b Type donijeti / doneti 106 -- 78 The imperative mood 106 -- 78a Endings of the imperative mood 106 -- 78b Use of singular and plural imperative forms 107 -- 78c The "inclusive" imperative and the form hajde 108 -- 78d The form neka 108 -- 78e Negative imperatives: aspect choice in the imperative mood 109 -- 79 The instrumental case 110 -- 79a Endings of nouns and adjectives 110 -- 79b The instrumental ending -u in feminine nouns 111 -- 79c The instrumental of interrogative pronouns 112 -- 79d Instrumental forms of pronoun objects 112 -- 80 Prepositions with the instrumental and other cases 113 -- 80a The preposition s(a) meaning "with" 113 -- 80b Prepositions referring to location 113 -- 81 The instrumental without prepositions 114 -- 81a The instrumental of means 114 -- 81b The instrumental in time expressions 115
Notes Print version record
Subject Bosnian language -- Grammar, Comparative -- Croatian
Bosnian language -- Grammar, Comparative -- Serbian
Croatian language -- Grammar, Comparative -- Bosnian
Croatian language -- Grammar, Comparative -- Serbian
Serbian language -- Grammar, Comparative -- Bosnian
Serbian language -- Grammar, Comparative -- Croatian
Sociolinguistics -- Former Yugoslav republics
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Serbian & Croatian.
Language and languages -- Political aspects.
Sociolinguistics.
Bosnisch
Kontrastive Grammatik
Kroatisch
Serbisch
Soziolinguistik
Servo-Kroatisch.
Vergelijkende grammatica.
Sociolinguïstiek.
Former Yugoslav republics -- Languages -- Political aspects
Yugoslavia.
Bosnië.
Kroatië.
Servië.
Bosnisch.
Kroatisch.
Serbisch.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780299211936
0299211932