Usage properties and meanings of the preposition mimo in the Croatian language

U radu se opisuju i analiziraju upotrebe prijedloga mimo u hrvatskom jeziku – jedinog prijedloga prostornog značenja koji se etimološki veže uz glagol. Cilj je rada izložiti na značenje usmjeren opis upotrebe tog prijedloga, a što podrazumijeva opisivanje primarnog prostornog značenja te uočavanje načina na koji je to primarno prostorno značenje motiviralo ostale upotrebe – prostorne i neprostorne. Teorijski pristup rada je kognitivnolingvistički, a izložena analiza te zaključci temelje se na interpretaciji primjera prikupljenih pretraživanjem korpusa. Uz informacije o prijedložnoj upotrebi, rad donosi informacije i o drugim upotrebama prostorne jezične jedinice mimo.This paper describes and analyses usages of the preposition mimo in Croatian (the only spatial preposition etymologically related to a verb). Its main goal is to present a coherent semantic description of the usages of this preposition. This presupposes the elaboration of its primary spatial meaning as well as the identification of primary spatial meaning as a motivation source for all other usages – spatial and non-spatial. The theoretical framework is cognitive linguistics, while the analysis and the conclusions are based on the interpretation of examples collected through corpus searches. In addition to the information on prepositional usages, the paper brings information on other usages of spatial particle mimo as well