期刊名称：LAHOR: journal for Croatian as mother, second and foreign lanugage
印刷版ISSN：1846-2197
电子版ISSN：1848-4972
出版年度：2007
卷号：2.
期号：4.
页码：242-270
出版社：Crotian Philological Society
摘要：This paper analyses the distribution of Croatian cases in different types of text. The data consists of spoken text (freely spoken without pre-writing), it's written version (which is edited for printing), written data from two Croatian first grade school books, biblical epic text (2 Sam 11--12), and Psalm 51 (50). It is compared to child-directed spoken adult input data, spoken data from young children (2 and 2,6) and spoken data from 211 speakers (range 5--70 years old, but mostly middle-aged). The results show that nominative is almost always the most common case, accusative being the second. Together with the third, genitive they cover approx. 80% of the data. Vocative is the least common. There are 84% singular and 16% plural case forms. The percentage of different cases depends on the type of text: written vs. spoken, its speaker or writer, the listeners or readers, the register, and the content. However, the three most common cases will most often be Nom, Acc, Gen, with the rest changing order depending on the text. Accusative has the most stable position, usually 1/4 of words with declination will be in accusative (25--28%). Nominative is far less predictable, it depends more on the characteristics of the text (24--45% due to lyrics, otherwise it would range from 31--45%). Genitive ranges 11--16%, locative 5--8%, instrumental 4--6%, dative 6--15%, and vocative 0--6%.
关键词：Croatian cases; case frequency; spoken and written discourse
