PREPOSITIONS WÄHREND, WEGEN, TROTZ, UM … WILLEN ANDTHEIR FUNCTIONS Cover Image

PREPOSITIONS WÄHREND, WEGEN, TROTZ, UM … WILLEN ANDTHEIR FUNCTIONS
PREPOSITIONS WÄHREND, WEGEN, TROTZ, UM … WILLEN ANDTHEIR FUNCTIONS

Author(s): Emilia Ştefan
Subject(s): Language studies, Morphology
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: primary prepositions; secondary prepositions; the place of these prepositions; collocations;

Summary/Abstract: The prepositions während, wegen, trotz and um ... willen require the genitive case, the first three are part of the primary prepositions category, the fourth in the category of secondary prepositions, and they are all acknowledged in contemporary language not as derivations or compounders. Even though, one of their characteristics is that they do not require verbs, adjectives, or nouns, they are part of several collocations, that will be illustrated and whose meaning will be explained.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 300-303
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Georgian
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