Uzročne klauze uvedene veznikom budući (da) u administrativno-pravnom stilu srpskoga jezika 19. veka

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to study the status of subordinate clauses introduced by the general contextually dependent causal conjunction budući (da) in the administrative-legal style of the 19th century Serbian language. The corpus consists of constitutions introduced during the 19th and early 20th centuries (1835, 1838, 1869, 1888, 1901), as well as of laws from the Collection of Laws, Regulations and Decrees from the Principality/Kingdom of Serbia. In the analysis we used a combination of semantic-syntactic methods and methods from historical linguistics and functional stylistics. We found two forms of the observed conjunctions in the corpus: budući and budući da. Budući da is the dominant causative conjunction in the corpus (with 40% in relation to the total number of causative conjunctions). Usually, the conjunction budući da is used in preposition, since the postposition is reserved for clauses introduced by the conjunction jer. In the modern Serbian language, the form budući is withdrawn, due to isomorphism with the present participle and the singular form of the masculine participle. We did not find budući in the codification period.