Prepositions in literary Slovak and Polish
Predložky v spisovnej slovenčine a poľštine (miestny význam "blízko, v blízkosti, neďaleko")

Summary/Abstract: This contribution by concerned with prepositions in Slovak and Polish. In the first chapter we aimed to analyse of state observation prepositions in Slovak and Polish, which has in both languages some insufficiencies. The basic (primary) meaning of both Slovak and Polish prepositions is a spatial meaning which bears a great variety of nuances. The subject of a contrastive analysis in the second chapter is one of the nuances: local (static) meaning „near, in the vicinity, not far from.“ We aimed to describe and compare its expression by means of primary prepositions in Slovak and Polish. The comparison reveals that aside from many concordances and similarities between the languages following from the common origin of Slovak and Polish, we can also identify a lot of differences in the expression of this meaning resulting from the uniqueness of the development of both languages. This contrastive analyses has weight especialy for practical needs of teachers, students, translators and speakers.

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