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In this paper we have examined the process of forming noun phrases with incongruent attributive adjectives in the collection of poems Utopljene duše (Drowned souls) by Vladislav Petković Dis. Our initial hypothesis was that the “decompositon” of Dis’s world could be noted on all levels of text, and then transfered to the all levels of the Dis’s language, including the process of forming noun phrases without a preposition. The genitive noun phrase without a preposition is understood as an...

In this paper we have analyzed some aspects of naming in the novel Semolj zemlja written by MiroVuksanovic. We assumed that microtoponyms can be compared with the geographical signs. In other words, we have proposed the idea that microtoponyms have either a logical or aesthetical code depending on their stylistic role in the novel. Мost of the microtoponyms found in the novel have a logical code. Their naming is due to extracting one distinctive feature of the geographic object and to t...

The subject of the paper is the analysis of the inuence of stylistic and genre differentialon the use of cases in the Stenography notes of the Kingdom of Serbia Parliament in the year 1989. The initial hypothesis was that the inuence is based on: (a) presence of the administrativeand legal register; (b) presence of spoken and written variants; (c) presence of certain subgenres.It has been established that there are sentences that belong to both the administrative/legal andeveryday language ...

The paper examines the poetic transformation of spatial expressions in the poetry collection Drowned Souls by Vladislav Petković Dis. The basis for the analysis was the structuralist point of view that a poetry collection is a unique artistic sign of which spatial expressions represent an integral part. We assumed that the choice and the modification of spatial expressions are determined by the specific perception of space, influenced both by the poetics of the epoch (the view that life is ...

The subject of this paper is the semantic and pragmatic analysis of the expression videti svojim očima. We have examined the medieval, 19th century and contemporary periods of the Serbian language. We have employed a qualitative method of analysis. Structurally speaking, the expression consists of a verb of visual perception, possessive adjective functioning as a nonomissable determinator, and the noun očima. The expression svojim očima serves the following pragmatic functions: intensif...

The aim of this paper is to study the most prominent characteristics of people’s nicknames as semiotic signs in the novel “Semolj ljudi” by Miro Vukasinović. Prototypically, a nickname represents the evaluation of the people given by a traditional community. We can note down four levels of meaning in the novel: (a) meaning in the isolated world of Semolj mountain; (b) meaning in territory beyond Semolj; (c) universal meaning; (d) meta-poetic meaning. In some cases the signifier is negat...