ЗНАЧЕЊСКЕ ВАРИЈАЦИЈЕ КОНСТРУКЦИЈЕ С ПРЕДЛОГОМ ПРЕД У СРПСКОМ И РУСИНСКОМ ЈЕЗИКУ
MEANING VARIATIONS OF THE CONSTRUCTION WITH THE PREPOSITION ПРЕД IN THE SERBIAN AND RUТHENIANLANGUAGES

Summary/Abstract: Although the study of the meaning of propositions in linguistics has an enviable tradition, which in a certain way refutes the previously established position that they are synsemantic linguistic units, in this research we follow the trail of the constructional integrity of linguistic expressions which, depending on the contextual environment and lexical selection, show less or greater variance in terms of its meaning resources. Thus, on the example of the semantic potential of the construction with the preposition pred, the procedure of semantic transposition will be pointed out, which implies moving away from the spatial and the realization of some secondary, more or less related meaning, such as temporality, causality, agentivity, patientity, etc. (e.g. Седи пред кафаном; Стигао је пред сами час; Побегли су пред њима; Иде ногу пред ногу; Пред нама су велика искушења; Пред нас су ставили тежак избор, etc.). The research will be conducted on materials from the Serbian and Vojvodinian Ruthenian languages, which will confirm the general linguistic and cognitive character of the process of semantic transposition in the language.

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