PREPOSITIONAL CASE CONSTRUCTIONS WITH THE SEMANTIC COMPONENT OF THE INTERIOR IN SERBIAN AND SLOVENIAN Cover Image

PREDLOŠKO-PADEŽNE KONSTRUKCIJE SA SEMANTIČKOM KOMPONENTOM UNUTRAŠNJOSTI U SRPSKOM I SLOVENAČKOM JEZIKU
PREPOSITIONAL CASE CONSTRUCTIONS WITH THE SEMANTIC COMPONENT OF THE INTERIOR IN SERBIAN AND SLOVENIAN

Author(s): Ana Ž. Samardžić
Subject(s): Lexis, Comparative Linguistics
Published by: Филозофски факултет, Универзитет у Новом Саду
Keywords: prepositional case construction; interior; localization; Serbian; Slovenian.

Summary/Abstract: This work deals with the synchronical description of prepositional case constructions with the semantic component of the interior in Serbian and Slovenian. The examples used for analysis are excerpted from the novel Besnilo, by Borislav Pekic, written in Serbian and its translation into Slovenian, Steklina. The aim of contrasting the prepositional case constructions subsystem of these two languages is the identification of similarities and differences in the expression of semantic features within the prepositional case constructions with a spatial meaning on the paradigmatical level, while the translation equivalents are being analyzed on the syntagmatic level. The analysis points out that there are no bigger differences in the distribution of prepositional case constructions with the semantic component of the interior in Serbian and Slovenian. The use of the corresponding construction can be conditioned by the lexical meaning of the noun within prepositional case construction, the meaning of the verb and its valency, and also by its morphemic composition.

  • Issue Year: 3/2013
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 11-23
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Serbian
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