The  paper  explores  the  frequency  of  participial  modifier  clauses  in  a  selection  of  texts  in  the magazine genre. Non-finite clauses containing the main verb in the participle form, called –ing and –ed forms,  are  not  uncommon  ...

By Edina Rizvić-Eminović, Adnan Bujak, Goran Grubešić

Modern Standard English does not license null subjects in finite clauses, making the subject an obligatory element whenever the verb is inflected for person, number and tense, even when the meager English morphology fails to show it. A rare exception to this rule are relative clauses in certain non-standard varieties of English in which the wh-word...

By Goran Grubešić

Most language transfer studies focus on the infuence that L1 may have on the comprehension and production of L2. When such infuence inhibits L2 production, it has been often referred to as interference or negative transfer (see Isurin 2005 among others). The present study is a report on a pilot survey with the aim of investigatingwhether cross-ling...

By Goran Grubešić, Nadira Aljović