Relative prepositional adverbs of the type next to, near, through, over, around in adverbial and prepositional use

Abstract

Prispevek s sinhronega vidika obravnava aktualno rabo t. i. razmerijskih prislovov v slovenščini. To so prislovi prostorskih razmerij, ki so po svoji skladenjskopomenski vlogi najbližje predlogom, zato se lahko po skladenjski konverziji uporabljajo kot samostojna prislovna določila ali kot predlogi. Ta dvoja besednovrstnost je pri teh prislovih že tako ustaljena, da so tudi slovarsko deljeno obravnavani, tj. ločeno kot prislovi in ločeno kot predlogi.

This article addresses the contemporary use of relational adverbs in Slovenian from the point of view of synchronic linguistics. The term ‘relational adverbs’ refers to adverbs of spatial relations whose syntactic-semantic roles are closest to those of prepositions. For this reason, they can be converted into full adjuncts or into prepositions. This ability to function as two different parts of speech has been normalised to such a degree with relational adverbs that lexicographers typically treat them as two separate lemmata: one classified as an adverb and the other classified as a preposition.