KONTEKSTUALIZACIJA PRIJEDLOGA U ARAPSKOM JEZIKU
CONTEXTUALIZATION OF PREPOSITIONS IN ARABIC

Summary/Abstract: Together with adverbs, conjunctions and exclamations prepositions belong to particles, the third word class in the Arabic language. Since particles in Arabic are, in the broadest sense, words of incomplete meaning, immutable and dependent, these characteristics are attributed to prepositions as well. Among the particles, they are the most active group of words, and as such they belong to the group of active particles, i.e. particles which have a kind of reaction that is being realized in the word they precede. Although, in the opinion of a considerable number of linguists, prepositions are not deprived of certain lexical potentials when observed in a context, their meanings are completed first after being linked with names and verbs, and they show a variety of possibilities for affecting the lexical semantics of verbs they collocate with. There are many divisions of prepositions in the Arabic language which are touched upon in this text. And in the process of all aspects of globalization including the linguistic one as well, particles in general and prepositions in particular remain completely independent linguistic entities.

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