PREPOSITIONAL CASE CONSTRUCTIONS WITH THE SEMANTIC COMPONENT OF THE SURFACE IN SERBIAN AND SLOVENIAN

Abstract

This work deals with the synchronical description of prepositional case constructions with the semantic component of the surface in Serbian and Slovenian. The examples used for analysis are excerpted from the novel Besnilo, by Borislav Pekic, written in Serbian and its translation into Slovenian, Steklina. The aim of contrasting the prepositional case constructions subsystem of these two languages is the identification of similarities and differences in the expression of semantic features within the prepositional case constructions with a spatial meaning on the paradigmatical level, while the translation equivalents are being analyzed on the syntagmatic level.