PREPOSITIONAL AND UNPREPOSITIONAL USE OF AN ACCUSATIVE, GENITIVE AND INSTRUMENTAL IN EKAVIAN ČAKAVIAN DIALECT

Abstract

This paper describes some syntactic categories of prepositional and non-prepositional connections with grammatical cases – accusative, genitive and instrumental – and gives basic phonological and morphological characteristics of the prepositions “va” and “z” in nine Ekavian Čakavian idioms that belong to the four subdialects of the Ekavian Čakavian dialects. The aim of the research is to extend the methodological and theoretical postulates of the syntactic system of local dialects, with emphasis on the syntax of cases with an indication of the syntactic isoglosses on the level of dialects.