Verb Constructions (u)činiti (se) + Noun or Adjective of Foreign Origin in Parry-Lord’s Collection

The paper analyzes the verb constructions composed of the verb with incomplete meanings(u)činiti (se) and nouns or adjectives of foreign origin as lexical meaning in Bosniak epic poems using the example of Parry-Lord’s collection from 1953. Such constructions in the verse structure fill the position of the predicate, either decomposed (verb + noun) or semi-copulative (verb + adjective), and are one of the characteristic features of the oral epic style. The conducted research confirms that the adjectives in these predicates are invariably of oriental origin, and the nouns are mostly of oriental and rarely of Italian and Albanian origin. The purpose of the analysis is not only to give a description of these constructions, but also to explain the reasons for their high frequency. Their frequent use in epic poetry is a reflection of the desire for simplicity, which epic singers fulfill by using traditional patterns of epic formulas: by replacing one noun or adjective with another same syllabic noun or adjective in these constructions the formulas of the second half-verse are very easily created. The simplicity of using these constructions in composing verses favors the frequency of their use. The list of all those constructions from the selected corpus is given in the form of a dictionary article, the structure of which includes an accented determiner, an etymological determiner, an indication of the type of word, a lexicographic (stylistic) determiner, a description of the meaning and an example.