GRAMMATICALIZATION AND SECONDARY PREPOSITIONS DERIVED FROM VERBS AND NOUNS

Sekundarnim se prijedlozima u ovome radu smatraju prijedlozi koji porijeklo vuku iz neke druge vrste riječi, a u istome se obliku u suvremenome jeziku upotrebljavaju i kao leksičke i kao gramatičke jedinice. U skladu s tim, takvi se prijedlozi dijele na glagolske (zahvaljujući, isključivši, sudeći po) i imeničke (početkom, na temelju, u vezi s). U radu se, prema teorijskim postavkama teorije gramatikalizacije, ispituje njihova gramatikaliziranost u odnosu na punoznačne jezične jedinice od kojih su nastali. Pokazuje da su takvi prijedlozi izgubili neka od svojih prijašnjih kategorijalnih obilježja, a taj je gubitak uzrokovan ponajprije semantičkim promjenama odnosno izbljeđivanjem njihova leksičkoga značenja.Unlike the traditional conception of prepositions as closed word class with a limited number of members, prepositions in this paper are conceived as an open, inhomogeneous group of words (including both lexemes and syntagms) consisting of elements with a different degree of grammaticalization. The term secondary prepositions covers those expressions wich originate from other word classes, but which are used in contemporary Croatian in the same form both as lexical and grammatical units. Consequently, such prepositions are divided into deverbal (zahvaljujući, isključivši, sudeći po) and denominal (početkom, na temelju, u vezi s). In accordance with the assumptions of grammaticalization theory, the author emphasizes the difference between lexical and grammatical uses of such expressions and shows that these prepositions have lost some of their former categorial features, which is primarily caused by semantic changes, that is by the bleaching of their lexical meanings