Semantic Roles of Subject in English and Croatian

Piperković, Dunja

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Semantic Roles of Subject in English and Croatian

Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2010. urn:nbn:hr:142:563736

Piperković, Dunja

Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English Language and Literature

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Piperković, D. (2010). Semantic Roles of Subject in English and Croatian (Master's thesis). Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:563736

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Piperković D. Semantic Roles of Subject in English and Croatian [Master's thesis]. Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2010 [cited 2025 January 28] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:563736

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Title	Semantic Roles of Subject in English and Croatian
Author	Dunja Piperković
Mentor	Gabrijela Buljan (mentor)
Granter	Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (Department of English Language and Literature) Osijek
Defense date and country	2010-09-22, Croatia
Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline	HUMANISTIC SCIENCES Philology
Abstract	Subject is a theoretical concept which properly belongs to the domain of syntax. However, since there is a wealth of different and competing syntactic theories, the definitions and treatments of the category of subject vary drastically, which is clearly represented in the theoretical part of the paper. The grammatical function 'subject' introduces a prototypical category in which some subjects are better examples than other subjects. This requires a definition of the subject which includes a set of heterogeneous criteria on the morphological, syntactic, pragmatic, and semantic level, which may explain a greater range of linguistic phenomena. The analytical part of this paper narrows down our focus and concentrates on the differences between English and Croatian in the mapping between the syntactic function of subject and semantic roles. We have analysed a small database consisting of twenty English sentences and their Croatian translation equivalents. The goal is to show that English seems to be more flexible in the choice of semantic roles for the subject than Croatian. Croatian shows a greater tendency towards prototypical subjects, i.e. subjects in Croatian carry predominantly the semantic role of agent.
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Language	english
URN:NBN	urn:nbn:hr:142:563736
Study programme	Title: English Language and Literature (double major); specializations in: Teacher Training, Translation and Interpreting Studies, Philology Course: Teacher Training Study programme type: university Study level: graduate Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti (magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti)
Study programme	Title: German Language and Literature (double major); specializations in: Teacher Training, Translation Studies Course: Teacher Training Study programme type: university Study level: graduate Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra njemačkog jezika i književnosti (magistar/magistra njemačkog jezika i književnosti)
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