Valency patterns of manner of speaking verbs in Croatian

Abstract Manner of speaking verbs denote the transfer a message through speech, emphasizing volume, intensity, comprehensibility, psychophysical condition speaker, and/or impression that speaker leaves on hearer. In this article, are semantically divided into four subclasses: 1. Verbs with emphasis 2. incomprehensible speaking, 3. meaningless and complaining, 4. emotional component. Their syntactic peculiarities have been extensively researched in English, while no special attention has paid to these Croatian. It is stated Croatian they monovalent verbs. However, can be bivalent, even trivalent. The recipient expressed by dative complement within all semantic subclasses. With loud negative emotions, it prepositional na ‘at’ + accusative za ‘after’ instrumental. theme quotation clausal complement, o ‘about’ locative, an sometimes protiv ‘against’ genitive, ‘for’ accusative, fewer phrases instrumental or nad ‘over’ Interestingly, there certain restrictions for complements’ combination same clause, which described more detail article.