ФУНКЦИЈЕ И ОБЕЛЕЖЈА РЕЛАЦИОНИХ КОМПОНЕНАТА У НЕМАЧКОЈ ФРАЗЕОЛОГИЈИ

Prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, and determinatives are called relational components in the phraseology of the German language. These components are considered to be secondary because German theoretical phraseology attributes all relevant functions and features to basic elements, i.e. components that originate from autosemantic word classes, mainly from nouns, adjectives and verbs. Consequently, one has established a clear, but unmotivated functional distinction between the basic elements on one hand, and the relational components on the other. In this article, we analyze the possible parallelism in functions and features of these two sets of components. The examples show that relational components can appear as semantic determinants, basic components, and even as syntactic nuclei, or they can exhibit morphological frozenness and appear as unique components, a phenomenon that the research has so far ascribed exclusively to basic elements.