Expression of Space in Slovene Phraseology

Abstract

Phraseological word combinations that name space and express spatial relationships are the result of semantic shifts and also their origin, hence their research is necessarily set both ways. The first part of the article analyzes phrasemes representing the core of phraseologically expressed space, i.e., mainly phrasemes with a somatic component. The second part outlines the results of secondary semantic shifts to which these phrasemes most often succumb.