| dc.description.abstract | The article consists of an introductory part and of two chapters.
The introduction supplies general information on prepositions and their synonymy, with a table presenting the
different prepositional functions.
In the first chapter, devoted to synonymy, the author analyses prepositions performing spacial, temporal, and
causal functions. The prepositions are grouped in pairs and series. The grouped prepositions are mutually in simple
opposition, i.e. they differ from one another by one feature of lexical meaning only. The analysis of each group of
prepositions ends up with a table where prepositions with a given meaning are summarily compared. Both the analysis
and the table draw a distinction between primary and derived prepositions.
In the second part of her article the author presents the respective functions of prepositions with many meanings
and one meaning, stressing the fact that it is the primary prepositions which possess the largest number of
meanings, whereas derived prepositions have usually but one meaning. It is only the group of adverbial prepositions, most closely related to primary ones, that have two meanings each.
Analysing the collected material the author also emphasizes that primary prepositions have no lexical meaning by
themselves: that is why she has concerned herself with, the meaning of whole prepositional phrases.
The paper has been intended as an analysis of the function of prepositions, as a discussion of their synonymy and
ambiguity with a simultaneous differentiation between primary and derived prepositions. | en_EN |
