This paper looks into the establishment of the qualitative genitive (of the type 'covek visokog rasta') in the domain of Slavic languages. The author presupposes that this syntactic semantic means has developed in the course of history of Slavic languages as a reflection of the revitalized possesive genitive blocked by the compulsory determinant. It has happened at the expense of the restrictive instrumental (of the type 'covek visok rastom'). Spreading of the qualitative genitive at the expense of the restrictive instrumental means shifting of the agreement of the adjectival phrase from the determined element (covek visok rastom) to the determining element (covek visokog rasta).
This paper discusses the determinative function of the accusative with the preposition 'za' (for) in the Old Serbian language (12th-15th centuries). Due to its primarily spatial meaning of the post-location adlativity, confirmed in all Slavic languages, this case construction could be connected to the adverbial determination of the temporal, causal, final, conditional, concessive and qualification type, as well as to adnominal determination of the specification type. All these meanings are the reflection of the post-location adlativity, that is, direction determined by the back side of the object in focus.
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