Quantifying Quality in (Non)-Predicative Exclamatory Sentences

Abstract

This paper analyses the type of exclamatory sentences formed by the interrogative-relative pronouns of kakav, kakva, kakvo, koji, koja, koje, koliki, kolika, and koliko and pronominal adverbs of kako, tako, koliko, toliko, and sto as quantifying premodifiers of the meaning of a quantifying semantics lexeme (noun, adjective, adverb, and, implicitly, verb), which results in a combination of expressively pronounced quality, marked by the emotional-evaluative attitude of the speaker. Therefore, the analysis of such sentences requires a multiple-aspect approach – in terms of the syntactic plan, they are determined in relation to homoform interrogative sentences, whereas the functioning of their singled out models is checked in a corpus from the semantic-stylistic aspect, with the structural-descriptive methodological procedure being the basic one.