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Two morpho–syntactic patterns in Serbo-Croatian

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Charles E. Bidwell
Charles E. Bidwell*
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University of Pittsburgh
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Abstract

Two structural patterns, rather common in recent Serbo-Croatian but infrequent in most other Slavic languages, are treated. One is the compounding of two nouns into a morpho-syntactic unit equivalent to a single noun, in which the first component remains unchanged as the nominative singular form, while the second element is declined. The other is the indeclinable adjectival attribute. Both patterns may be attributed to foreign influence, originally Turkish, later replaced by that of German and other western languages.

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Language , Volume 45 , Issue 1 , March 1969 , pp. 31 - 34
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Copyright © 1969 by Linguistic Society of America

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