ROMANIAN EQUIVALENTS OF THE SERBIAN SPATIAL GENITIVE

Abstract

This paper is about a contrastive analyses study of the prepositional-casual spatial constructions with genitive in the Romanian and Serbian Language. It is the intention of the author to contrast two semantic systems consisting of parts which are morphologically represented by prepositional and case structures. Primary syntactic formalizers of spatiality in both the Romanian and Serbian language are either case structures, or combinations made of case structure followed by preposition. This research could be useful for at least two reasons: firstly – the problem of the substandard use of case structures with genitive used in the Serbian language spoken by Romanian speakers could be explained, and secondly – philological audience could obtain important data about spatial aspects of the Romanian case system, which is of great importance for further research of Serbian dialects  influenced by Balkanisation process. The paper presents spatial semantic subfields consisting of examples with genitive in the Romanian and Serbian language. Examples illustrating Romanian equivalents of spatial genitive in Serbian language are extracted from Serbian literary work translated in Romanian language and vice versa.