Combinability with prepositions in Slovene and English: theoretical and contrastive views

Abstract

The present article aims to shed some light on the combinability of verbs, nouns and adjectives with prepositions - a phenomenon which is common both in Slovene and in English, but has not been extensively commented on by Slovene linguists. In Anglo­ American linguistics, such combinations with prepositions are basically divided into two groups , which tend to be named differently by authors of different linguistic "ori­ entations".

Keywords

• semantic- and structural-syntactic aspect of valency
• combinability with prepositions
• prepositional free morpheme
• prepositional collocation
• free combination