PREPOSITIONS OF TIME IN CROATIAN

Abstract

This paper analyses the time meanings of prepositions in Croatian. There are altogether 16 typical meanings of prepositional expressins:
1. simultaneousness (za vrijeme blagdana)
2. pre-temporality (prije blagdana)
3. post-temporality (nakon blagdana)
4. pro-temporality (preko cijele godine)
5. ablative temporality (/To mu je ostalo/iz djetinjstva)
6. inter-temporality (između petka i subote)
7. intra-temporality (u roku od tjedan dana)
8. circum-temporality (oko Bozića)
9. comparative temporality (preko dva mjeseca)
10. "spatial temporality" (na svadbi)
11. directive temporality (do ove godine)
12. centre temporality (usred bijela dana)
13. extreme temporality (na početku/na kraju stoljeća)
14. societal temporality (s godinama)
15. alternant temporality (u subotu mjesto u nedjelju)
16. "casual temporality" (u povodu blagdana).