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The adjectival status of past participles in multiword units in Croatian

Past participles (ending with -an, -en, and -t) and the group of adjectives referred to in Croatian linguistics as “true” adjectives (descriptive, possessive and material) are similar regarding their syntactic structure. They can be predicates as a complement to the verb to be: jabuka je ubrana ‘the apple was picked’ (past participle) / jabuka je svježa ‘the apple is fresh’ (true adjective). Like true adjectives, when a past participle appears as a complement to a noun, it gains attributive features and takes on the grammatical categories of nominal words (gender, number, case), e.g. nadahnut govor ‘an inspired speech’ (past participle) / emotivan govor ‘an emotional speech’ (descriptive adjective).

past participles, Croatian

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