page_title: Snježana Kordić
section_title: Monograph on Serbo-Croatian words on the border between lexicon and grammar (2002)
hierarchical_section_title: Snježana Kordić / Works and reception / Monograph on Serbo-Croatian words on the border between lexicon and grammar (2002)
caption_attribution_description: English: Frequency of relativizers from Snježana Kordićʼs book Relativna rečenica, Zagreb 1995, diagram on p. 56 or its German translation: Der Relativsatz im Serbokroatischen, Munich 1999, diagram on p. 46
context_page_description: Snježana Kordić; born 29 October 1964 is a Croatian linguist. In addition to her work in syntax, she has written on sociolinguistics. Kordić is known among non-specialists for numerous articles against the puristic and prescriptive language policy in Croatia. Her 2010 book on language and nationalism popularises the theory of pluricentric languages in the Balkans.
context_section_description: In her second monograph, which has also been reviewed with approval, Snježana Kordić examines Serbo-Croatian words that oscillate between having a full lexical status and a functional grammatical status, a factor that has complicated their lexicographic and grammatical description in dictionaries and grammars. These are mainly lexemes which have a high frequency usage and are used in many different ways. The monograph provides information on the syntax, semantics and pragmatics of the usage of selected pronouns, nouns, particle, conjunctions and verbs.
  Matthew Feeney concluded his review by saying: 
  Kordić provides much new information about the selected forms. This work will be of use to those who write in Croatian and Serbian, those who are writing grammars of the language, lexicographer, translators, students and teachers of the language, Slavic linguists and general linguists.
  — Slavic and East European Journal
  
  Peter Herrity emphasised that:
  In all the chapters of this book the author has thoroughly researched the existing literature on the points covered and provided a conclusion on modern usage which will be invaluable for grammarians and lexicographers who often treat these subjects in a cursory fashion. This book will be a welcome addition to the field of Serbo-Croatian scholarship.
  — The Slavonic and East European Review
  Wayles Browne, an American expert on relative clauses, commented both of the books. He noted that Kordić's first book on relative clauses is: 
  a valuable and thorough study of the grammar of relative constructions, drawing theoretical-linguistic inspiration from a number of sources and citing statistical results based on a large representative corpus.
  — Canadian Slavonic Papers
   In the same review article, Browne pointed out that Kordić's second monograph
  shares the virtues of her work on relative clauses, being empirically well supported and making references to a variety of traditions in linguistics. One is impressed to see, on its pages, apposite quotations from independently developed German, Russian, Polish, Czech, and English-American scholarship converging on similar views.
  — Canadian Slavonic Papers
caption: Frequency of relativizers (Kordić)
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