Prijedložni izrazi u dvama molitvenicima
Prepositional Phrases in two Breviaries

Summary/Abstract: The text describes the characteristics of the language in two prayer books: Antun Kanilić's Primoguchi i sardce nadvladajuchi uzroci written in 1760, and its re-make Važni uzroci written by Vinko Basile in 1864. The comparison of these two texts shows that the author of the more recent prayer-book leaves out - fully or partially - those parts of the text not necessary for the informational function, i. e., he leaves out nouns with a broad or emptied meaning (vrime - time; tvar - thing; nacsin - manner). The author of this paper also compares prepositional phrases with prepositions k and pram/prama and shows that congruent attributes from Kanižlić's text are replaced with incongruent attributes in the more recent adaptation - nominal phrases are replaced with prepositional phrases with pram/prama, which is connected with a more frequent use of this preposition in the 19th century text. There is also a description of the relation between the prepositional and non-prepositional genitive and instrumental constructions in the above two prayer books.

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