Expressing the Category of Time With Instrumental Constructions in the Bosnian Language

Abstract

The paper discusses the instrumental constructions that express temporal meaning in the Bosnian language. The temporal instrumental usually refers to non-prepositional constructions with a time-localizer indicating the continuity of the time line in the form of a metaphorical path where there are frequent verbal processes. In those constructions there is usually a small spectrum of words indicating a measure of time or a period of time. With the non-prepositional constructions, for the expression of the category of time prepositional constructions are commonly used – with the prepositions s(a), pred(a), za, pod and prepositional phrases istovremeno/istodobno s(a), uporedo/naporedo s(a), paralelno s(a). All of these instrumental constructions fit into the schematic concept of parallelism inherent in the instrumental case.