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Complex adpositions in Slavic languages : the case of Serbian

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The chapter offers an illustration of the adpositional systems of Slavic languages through both an overview of simple adpositions and an in-depth study of complex adpositions in Serbian, a South-Slavic language. Using a broad definition of complex adpositions, which can be considered as multi-word functional equivalents of simple adpositions, I first provide an inventory of four hundred expressions which, while displaying variable degrees of fossilization, constitute the empirical basis for this work. This then allows me to point out that their formation follows up to twenty different patterns, and that the vast majority of them involve four construction schemas, with one highly productive pattern forming about 70% of complex adpositions in Serbian, namely [P1 N] (e.g. u okviru ‘in the framework/scope of’). Finally, a quantitative, corpus-based analysis confirms that, as in other European languages, the class of complex adpositions in Serbian is to be thought of as a continuum between sequences that are formally coalesced and semantically rather opaque, and those that exhibit a certain degree of transparency.
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halshs-04045736, version 1 (25-03-2023)

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Dejan Stosic. Complex adpositions in Slavic languages : the case of Serbian. Benjamin Fagard; José Pinto de Lima; Dejan Stosic; Elena Smirnova. Complex Adpositions in European Languages, De Gruyter Mouton; De Gruyter, pp.139-194, 2020, Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT], 978-3-11-068664-7. ⟨10.1515/9783110686647-004⟩. ⟨halshs-04045736⟩
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