THEORETICAL PROBLEMS IN STUDYING PREPOSITIONS IN RUSSIAN LINGUISTICS

Abstract

The article focuses on the history of studying prepositions in Russian linguistics.
The author discusses the most important controversial problems in theory of preposition:
correlation of lexical and grammatical meanings of prepositions, absence of unified terminology
for phraseological prepositions, problems of studying prepositions in business language.
The paper gives an outline of classical and modern researches of prepositions analysis.