Prepositions in the Ekavian Čakavian Dialect

U radu se analiziraju najfrekventniji prijedlozi od, va i na s posebnim obzirom na značenje, a građa za njihovu analizu prikupljena je na temelju vlastitih terenskih istraživanja – ogleda mjesnih govora koji pripadaju četirima poddijalektima ekavskoga dijalekta čakavskoga narječja, snimljenih od 2005. do 2007. Za opis prijedloga nužno je utvrđivanje njihove temeljne varijante na fonološkoj razini te sintaktičkoga minimalnoga okruženja kako bi se opisalo značenje utemeljeno na prijedložnoj upotrebi.The paper first and foremost presents the importance of the analysis of prepositions as a type of word in the Čakavian Ekavian dialect. The meaning of prepositions has been established in syntactic environment, which is unknown without researching the dialect corpus. In the fieldwork, the dialect corpus for the theme analysis has been collected, including two local speeches in four subdialects of the Ekavian dialect of the Čakavian idiom, as follows: a) for the littoral subdialect, the speeches of Praputnjak and Krasica; b) for the northeastern Istrian subdialect, the speeches of Ika and Kastav; c) for the central Istrian subdialect, the speeches of Lupogalav and Boljunsko Polje and d) for the insular subdialect, the local speeches of Predošćica and Cres. In the description of the meaning of prepositions, we have established the basic variant of the most frequent prepositions in speeches in the Ekavian dialect of the Čakavian idiom – od, va and na; the distribution of prepositions with the case in a sentence and the description model for the meaning of prepositions in their syntactic environment