O prijedlozima u hrvatskom jeziku
On prepositons in Croatian language

Summary/Abstract: Insight into contemporary grammars of Croatian language makes evident that they do not have the same approach to the class of words called prepositions. In all grammars, prepositions are primarily defined on basis of their function, and only some grammars talk about the meaning of prepositions. In addition, only several grammars classify prepositions into groups/subsets according to their morphological complexity. Aforementioned grammars speak about pravi ‘real’ and nepravi ‘not real’ prepositions, tvorbeni ‘formed’ and netvorbeni ‘not formed’ prepositions or proizvedeni ‘produced’ and neproizvedeni ‘not produced’ prepositions. Basically, classifications are based on the same criteria, but those criteria are not clearly explained nor valued. Therefore, particular preposition can belong to different groups, differing from grammar to grammar. Also, number of prepositions belonging to Croatian language differs from one grammar to the other (archaism, prepositional phrases as prepositions). The aim of this paper is to present systematical list of prepositions in Croatian language which takes into account morphological complexity of prepositions and the nature of grammaticalization process which produces them.

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