Simile Demonstratives in Croatian
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Published:2021
Issue:2
Volume:33
Page:387-416
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ISSN:1848-9680
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Container-title:Fluminensia
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language:
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Short-container-title:Fluminensia (Online)
Author:
Brala Vukanović Maja1ORCID,
Gärdenfors Peter2ORCID,
Matešić Mihaela1ORCID
Affiliation:
1. University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
2. Department of Philosophy, Lund University
Abstract
We investigate a particular subclass of semantic features associated with demonstratives of quantity and quality, and the respective interrogatives. We explore these lexical elements as they behave linguistically in simile constructions in Croatian. We show that the semantic features that can be focused on in similes are the same as the references of the full system of Croatian demonstratives. However, the possibility to focus on a particular semantic feature by a specific choice of demonstrative or interrogative in simile constructions is being replaced in usage by the generic simile word ‘kao’.
Publisher
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Rijeka
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics