Besprijedložni i prijedložni genitiv u književnom korpusu fra Martina Mikulića
The Prepositionless and Prepositive Genitive in the Literary Corpus of Fra Martin Mikulić

Summary/Abstract: The question of the genitive case requires special attention in view of the variety of syntactic functions. The genitive case is called the relative case because it indicates that a specific object in a broader sense is in some relationship with another object. Numerous prepositions that come with the genitive serve precisely to concretize and specify its meaning. Some of the most common prepositions are: from, to, from, with(a), for, about, over and many others. The preposition (of ) is considered the most typical because its basic meaning is ablative, that is, the meaning of the movement of an object moving away from another object. On the other hand, the prepositionless genitive is a case that has various meanings - possessiveness, division, quality, completeness, etc. The possessive genitive is particularly interesting, the use of which is limited both in everyday speech and in standard language. In addition to the possessive genitive, in the corpus will determine the most common other meanings of the prepositionless genitive (emphatic, qualitative, slavic, partitive). Descriptions of the meaning of the genitive with and without prepositions will be supported by adequate examples from the literary corpus of Martin Mikulić, a herzegovinian franciscan writer who appeared at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. In order to provide a more complete and thorough analysis, the issues of the genitive will also be examined in the work of important bosnian franciscans of the 19th century, such as Jukić, Martić, Knežević, as well as some serbian and bosniak writers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, such as Pamučina, Dučić, Ljubušak, Bašagić, Edhem Mulabdić, including some newspapers of that time. Attention will be paid to: literary peculiarities - for example, the construction (of) + genitive used to name the agent of a passive sentence, the influence of oral folk literature ‒ slavic genitive, genitive in the function of a possessive incongruent attribute, etc., some dialectal influences ‒ genitive + preposition (does) in the causative sense instead of the preposition (because of), etc. Also, in this paper, attention will be paid to whether there is competition between the genitive in relation to other cases, then whether there is hesitation between some of the prepositions that are used with the genitive, and the problem of using the prepositional instead of the prepositionless genitive will be considered.

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