Prijedlozi i prijedložno-padežni izrazi s prostornim značenjem uz genitiv
Proposals and prepositional case phrases with the spatial meaning with the genitive

Summary/Abstract: From the facts presented in this article it can be noticed that there is no particular morphological category of space in Bosnian language and expressing of spacial relations is transmitted to syntactic, more exactly, morphosyntactic level of language. There are many ways for expression of spacial relations. The most frequent is using the prepositional phrases, which have the adverbial function. This phrases or expressions can have other functions as part of a sentence, but syntactical function don't play a major role in expressing of spacial relations. Semantic category of space rarely appears in language in absolute pure forms. On the contrary, it is often interwoven with other semantic categories, especially with the category of time (tense). The best prove for that is the fact that a number of expressions with meaning of time has the prepositions with basically spacial meaning in its structure. Category of space also interwoves with categories of cause, manner (mode), purpose etc. which is in favour of assertions that the primary meaning of prepositions is spacial meaning and that other meanings are derived later by analogy and so-called metaphorization of space. Great number of spacial expressions in language and their "internal" semantic differentiation show us that the category of space has big importance in language and in the real human life. Some linguistic theories say that the state in language is a reflection of the influence of the extralinguistic factors, both social and natural. Man's interior need for organizing, arranging and “putting everything on it's place” (in minds or in space) and his physicalbiological ability to move (in different directions) can be in favour of this theories, when we speak about semantic category of space, but let's leave that discussion to psycholinguists.

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