(376) Analysis of Prepositions in Marína(Slovak Romantic Poem)

Natália Kolenčíková, Gabriel Altmann

GLOTTOMETRICSIssue 48, pp 88 – 107 (2020)

Abstract.

In the article, the frequency of individual prepositions in the Slovak romantic poem Marína written by Andrej Sládkovič (1846), the distribution of the individual more abstract meanings within these prepositions and the distribution of individual prepositions to the more general concepts are analyzed. Every assumption is derived and tested by using the Menzerathian function and the Zipf- Alekseev function.

Keywords

Concept classes, frequency, prepositions, preposition meanings, Slovak