ZAVISNOSLOŽENE KLAUZE SA ZNAČENJEM EKSCEPTIVNOSTI U ADMINISTRATIVNO- PRAVNOM STILU SRPSKOGA JEZIKA 19. VEKA

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to examine the status of dependent clauses with the meaning of exclusion in the administrative-legal style of the Serbian language in the 19th century. The meaning of exclusion within the category of dependent clauses develops as a product of the more recent language development, mostly in the 20th century, and there has been no research on the status of this category in the 19th century as well as in the administrative-legal style of the 20th century. Legal texts adopted during the 19th century were used as the corpus. Excerpted examples were analyzed using a combination of semantic-syntactic, historical-linguistic, and functional-stylistic methods. We found that dependent clauses with exceptional meaning represent the least numerous group of dependent clauses in the administrative-legal style of the 19th century. This meaning is expressed by connectors such as osim ako / osem ako, sem ako, osim kad, osim gde, samo što and krom(j)e kad. The connector krom(j)e kad is found in the pre-standard period and represents the only hybrid connector, with a combination of elements from the vernacular and Church Slavonic / Russian-Slavic language. For the pre-standard period, it can be said that most connectors are in the process of formation. The connector samo ako, which in the normative-legal code serves to encode the exception within the rule-exception matrix, is most common.