Original scientific paper

Prepositional multiword expressions

Ivana Matas Ivanković ; Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje

Abstract

Prepositions are relational words; they connect head and dependent word. Most of syntagmatic expressions with prepositions come as free combinations, but some of them are multiword expressions that cannot be decomposed semantically and syntactically. This paper deals with multiword expressions with prepositions, that cannot be decomposed into component parts because this would lead to a grammatically unacceptable expressions (dodir između materije i duha ‘contact between matter and spirit’ cannot be dodir između materije ‘contact between matter’), or their meaning would change (zaštita od požara ‘fire protection’ is different from zaštita ‘protection’). The paper also addresses prepositions combined with semantically important, but structurally optional words such as modifiers (daleko iza sebe ‘far behind himself’). Depending on their relations, multiword expressions with prepositions are divided into 8 groups.

Keywords

compound units; multiword expressions; prepositions

Hrčak ID:

177796

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/177796

Publication date:

23.12.2016.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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