Complex Verbal Predicates and Word Order in the Croatian Kajkavian Literary Language

Eulogies have a long tradition in Latin texts printed in the Western European circle, in which they usually appear as Sermo funebris. Kajkavian eulogies usually have the titles mertvecko prodectvo (prodictvo), prodeka sprevodna, spo-menek and zalosno govorenje. They show a high degree of authorial freedom that is conditioned by social codes and the writer's social status. The paper provides an analysis of word order in co-sentences with complex verbal predicates. In a corpus of printed texts in the Croatian Kajkavian literary language the order of syntactic units of complex verbal predicates are determined, as well as the place of the complex verbal predicate in a co-sentence and its relationship with other parts of the co-sentence.