ON THE GENESIS OF PREPOSITIONAL GOVERNMENT

Abstract

The article deals with the genesis of prepositional government, explained with examples from different languages: Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Georgian, Eskimo, etc. The author explains that the prepositions which require genitive case from the noun are in fact petrified nouns. Proof for that is the fact that in some of the above-mentioned languages the words corresponding to the English in, on, before, behind, etc. can have case markers. Further on, the author shows how some verbs and participles can turn into prepositions or postpositions similar to the English regarding, concerning, etc. At the end of the article is discussed the pleonastic character of some prepositions that have been added to the phrase after the government between a verb and a noun has been established.