Professional paper
The Redundancy of the Preposition ot in Phrases of Possession
Željka Čelić
Abstract
The paper shows relatively new use of the preposition ot in Russian in phrases which determine possession and usually occur without such a preposition. Such phrases are, if grammaticaly correct, made only by noun in the genitive case, like recept zvezdy, not recept ot zvezdy. The phenomenon of the use of the formula: preposition ot + noun in genitive, with the form of nominative case = possession of somebody or something is shown by examples taken from a variety of media sources. The stress is on the unnecessary use of the preposition ot and its redundancy since the noun is the bearer of semantic content.
Keywords
formula ot + noun (gen.) = possessivity; noun in genitive for Russian words; noun in nominative for foreign (english) words
Hrčak ID:
9377
URI
Publication date:
22.2.2006.
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