WORD ORDER IN THE LANGUAGE OF MIHAILO LALIC
(Neke osobitosti reda riječi u romanima Mihaila Lalića)
Word order in the language Mihailo Lalic in most cases correspond to the situation in our contemporary standard language. However, such examples, from the point lingvostylistics and correlational syntax have no special significance. On the other hand, examples of “deviation” from the norm are very important for understanding the unique stylistic expression of the writer, who uses the parenthesis, inversion of different types (anastrophe, hyastic structures) contributing to the originality of storytelling, liberated from the uniform and monotonous depiction of the narrative reality. Therefore, we can conclude, even in cases where the language of Mihailo Lalic approaches linguistic expression of the older writers linguistic epochs, that the largest number of recorded deviations contain extremely stylish character. These features, on the other hand, enrich Lalić’s oeuvre, resulting in very expressive and, therefore, stylematic structures, which are thought to be very important segment of a literary text, making it different and unique. The paper deals with schedule of syntactic units found in the language of Mihailo Lalic, on the corpus consisting of the following novels: The Wedding (1950 and 1973), Break-Up (1955 and 1969), The Wailing Mountain (1957 and 1983), The Fortunes of War (1973 and 1983) and Tamara (1992). Key words: Mihailo Lalic, word order, (un) marking, expressiveness