This article first provides a general overview of the inherited Slavic prepositional system and the prepositional systems of three modern Slavic languages belonging to East, West, and South Slavic: Russian, Czech, and BCMS. The preposition–case combinations in Old Church Slavic are discussed in some detail because parallels can be drawn between Old Church Slavic and the mo…
Prepositions (7,354 words)
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Šarić, Ljiljana, “Prepositions”, in: Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics Online, Editor-in-Chief Marc L. Greenberg. Consulted online on 29 May 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2589-6229_ESLO_COM_035908>
First published online: 2020
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