How many prepositions are there in languages?

Doklady Bashkirskogo Universiteta. 2017. Volume 2. No. 3. pp. 514-518.

Authors


Muryasov R. Z.
Bashkir State University
32 Zaki Validi Street, 450074 Ufa, Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia

Abstract


Unstable character of a list of prepositions in various languages indicates that this part of speech is constantly replenished through units of other parts of speech and also due to the transfer of some word combinations to polycomponental prepositions.

Keywords


  • simple prepositions
  • compound and polycomponental prepositions