POSLEDIČNE REČENICE U ADMINISTRATIVNO-PRAVNOM STILU SRPSKOG JEZIKA U 19. VEKU

Abstract

In this paper, we studied the status of adverbial clauses of reason in administrative and legal registers of the 19th century. Our corpus consisted of texts written in a style suitable for the 19th century administrative and legal registers (the constitutions and laws from the Collection of laws, norms and regulatory decrees). During the analysis, we used a combination of methods from syntax, semantics, functional stylistics, and historical linguistics, along with the methods from the theory of law. Clauses of comparison do not appear often in the administrative and legal registers of the 19th century. Clauses of reason do not appear often in the administrative and legal registers of the 19th century. The majority of examples consists of the clauses of reason of the unparsed qualitative consequential subtype. They are introduced via a general dependent subordinator да in combination with the correlatives тако, толико, or with the demonstrative pronouns таков, такова, таково. The conjunction тако да is utilized as a full-fledged conjunction as well. We encounter these examples within complex sentence structures when we wish to point out that it is impossible to conduct an action and in cases where there is an interference with the meaning of manner. The observed examples are a feature of legal texts which are a combination of the legal and scientific registers, especially in texts whose subject matter is the study of medicine.