ČISTO NAČINSKE JEDINICE U POČETNOJ NASTAVI SRPSKOG KAO STRANOG JEZIKA

Abstract

The system of dependent clauses has numerous inconsistencies in classification and ter- minology. The subject of the paper includes syntactic structures of different hierarchical lev- els: adverbs, syntagms, prepositional phrases, present participle and dependent clauses. Their

semantic content has a meaningful component of manner. The research is based on a corpus of textbooks intended for learning Serbian as a foreign language using a structural-semantic approach. The aim was to find and summarize these structures and suggest which of them can be processed at the beginner level of language learning. The paper focuses on structures of manner as a subject of syntactic and methodological research in Serbian as a foreign language and provides a brief overview of research on this topic on the corpus of Serbian textbooks. The study gives a review of papers dedicated to the form and semantics, as well as the functions of these language units emphasizing their contri- bution to the teaching and individual progress of foreign students. It allows for utter consider- ation of the system of dependent clauses and their types in the language in question as a whole.