WORDS 'VOLJA', 'ČAS' AND 'MJESTO' BETWEEN NOUNS AND CONJUCTIONS / RIJEČI 'VOLJA', 'ČAS' I 'MJESTO' IZMEĐU IMENICA I VEZNIKA

Abstract

The paper describes the syntactic behavior of the words volja, čas and mjesto, which are primarily nouns, but sometimes in grammatical literature they are attributed to the conjunctions, at least in some constructions. It has been proven that these words are never conjunctions. The word volja is always a noun, as well as the word čas. In the constructions in which these words in the literature are attributed to the conjunctions, other words of similar meaning may be used, for example, želja (instead of volja) or minuta, sekunda (instead of čas), which additionally confirms that in these constructions the words volja and čas are nouns. Regarding the word mjesto, it is never conjunction, but it can be preposition. As a preposition, it is synonymous with words umjesto and namjesto, while the noun mjesto does not have these synonyms.