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Contrastive study of governed prepositions in Croatian, English and French

Governed prepositions are defined as prepositions in the relation of strong government with another lexical unit in a syntactic phrase, e.g. a verb (believe in, rely on) (Rauh 1993, Hoffmann 2007, Gaszewski 2012). The relation of strong government makes prepositions obligatory complements of verbs, and entails a semantic difference between verb senses with or without a preposition (Eng. believe someone – believe in someone, Cro. držati (što u ruci) ‘hold (something in hand)’ – držati do ‘appreciate ; lit. hold to’, Fr. porter ‘put’, ‘wear’ – porter sur ‘to focus on). It also entails a change in the meaning of a preposition and results in its extension from the basic spatial meaning, e.g. be in the box – believe in someone. It is therefore the aim of this study to examine the properties of governed prepositions in three structurally different languages - Croatian, English and French.

government ; prepositions ; verb-preposition constructions ; Croatian ; English ; French

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