Antonić Ivana: Vremenski odnosi u jeziku Andrićeve naracije

Ivana Antonić: Temporal relations in the language of Andrić's narration

Ivana Antonić's book represents a significant contribution to the interpretation of Andrić's language and the study of sentence syntax in the modern Serbian language. The monograph consists of nine texts that represent the results of ten years of research into the temporal semantic field as part of the international project of the Institute of Slavic Studies of the "Karl Franz" University in Graz. One part of the works was created in parallel as a result of participation in the project "Syntactic, semantic and pragmatic research of the standard Serbian language" at the Department of Serbian Language and Linguistics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad. The approach uses the theoretical-methodological concept developed by Ivana Antonić in her works on nominal and sentence time determination. In several places in the analysis of almost all the texts, the author notes that Andrić's temporal constructions do not deviate much from the state of the contemporary language, but they bring specificities that are important for new, different interpretations of the syntax of the Serbian language. and redefining the structure of semantic fields.

Ivana Antonić chose for analysis the expression of one of the most important fictional categories of artistic text - the category of time dominated by the past - by means of syntactic constructions. In most of his works, especially in his novels, our Nobel laureate is turned to history, he is enchanted, fascinated, "infected" by it, the present comes only in the reflection of some current situations [...] Therefore, this monograph is particularly significant from the aspect of confronting and permeating the narrative of time perspective (how the writer represents time), linguistic time perspective (how the time dimension is shaped and can be shaped by language) and research perspective (how the time component of a work of art can be analytically, in a given case linguistically, and more narrowly syntactically, scientifically design and describe at the level of individual realization of the syntactic potential of the language and in relation to the global potential of the modern language).

Ivana Antonić's monograph contributes on two levels: on the level of a complex, deep interpretation of the language and style of Ivo Andrić and on the level of studying the syntax of the modern Serbian language. If we add to that that there are almost no studies of this type in a special monograph with a wide corpus, this manuscript gains even more weight. Its special value is that a deep syntactic analysis was made in the language of one of the greatest stylists in the history of Serbian literature".

Branko Tošović