ENGLISH INDEFINITE PRONOUN ANY AND ITS SERBIAN TRANSLATION EQUIVALENTS

This study aims to analyse a contrastive relation between the English indefinite pronoun any and its Serbian equivalents. Beside simple any, also focuses on how compounds with other words – nouns (-body, -thing), numerals (-one) interrogatives (-where) are performed translated into Serbian. In this sense, is result-oriented. order reveal equivalence relevance distribution in practice, analysis was based parallel corpus. The source text ʻThe Sense of an Endingʼ by J. Barnes confronted corresponding target ʻOvo liči na krajʼ, investigate appropriate forms.
 Although belonging different language families, have shown significant degree similarities differences among elements scope. Indefinite pronouns linguistic universal. Thus they occur systematically both Nevertheless, pronominal equivalents not categorised only as indefinites, but negative (niko, ništa, nikakav), free-choice (neko, nešto, neki) universal functions26 (svako, bilo koji, kakav). There rarely reciprocity direct implication for each usually has numerous proportion non-pronominal (adverbs, particles, prepositional phrases, etc) 2:1. Zero appeared be unexpectedly frequent predominantly interrogative contexts. But even when indefinites explicitly translated, due stylistic pragmatic two languages, there at syntactic level. revealed various equivalents, can roughly brought down following: mostly omitted negatives, interrogatives, svaki affirmatives; anything ništa išta interroatives nešto anyone niko iko anybody ko anyway kako anywhere ikud negatives. Such asymmetry shows that obvious apparent compatibility pronouns.
 aim paper therefore been offer better understanding forms pronominals, terms their practical relevance.