Valency and prepositions: Comparative and contrastive Slovene-English aspects

• Authors: Zele Andreja , Sicherl Eva
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The present article aims to shed some light on the combinability of verbs, nouns and adjectives with prepositions - a phenomenon which is common both in Slovene and in English, but has not been extensively commented on by Slovene linguists. In Anglo-American linguistics, such combinations with prepositions are basically divided into two groups, which tend to be named differently by authors of different linguistic orientations. The article deals with valency and government-binding capacity of prepositions from the contrastive (Slovene-English) viewpoint. Prepositional collocations can be regarded as results of natural semantic- and structural-syntactic (valencyrelated) combining or binding of words, as mutual semantic and syntactic expectancy of words. While a lexicalized preposition is bound to the entire meaning of the multi-word unit (dictionary unit) it co-forms with the lexical word and its government, a non-lexicalized preposition is bound only to one sense of the dictionary unit. The differentiation between lexicalized and non-lexicalized prepositions in Slovene can be illustrated by delexical primary verbs.

Keywords

EN

COMBINABILITY WITH PREPOSITIONS; FREE COMBINATION; PREPOSITIONAL COLLOCATION; PREPOSITIONAL FREE MORPHEME; SEMANTIC- AND STRUCTURAL-SYNTACTIC ASPECT OF VALENCY

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovo a slovesnost: časopis pro otázky teorie a kultury jazyka (Slovo a slovesnost: A journal for the theory of language and language cultivation)
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 71
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 175-191
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Zele Andreja

author

Sicherl Eva

• Zele, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Novi Trg 2, Ljubljana 1000, Slovenia

• Andreja, Zele, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Novi Trg 2, Ljubljana 1000, Slovenia

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11CZAAAA095020