Analysis of prepositional case expressions in textbooks of Croatian as a second language

Sa？etak The aims of learning Croatian as a mother language and Croatian as a foreign language are defined by functional and communicational principles and they imply working on a text. At the starting levels of learning Croatian as a foreign language shorter and more simple texts are used, with more simple language structures and prototype words, in teaching of which the principle of prototype, frequency and graduality is obeyed, according to the language level of attendants of certain programmes. This work analyses the most represented prepositions as well as semantic representation of prepositions and prepositional case expressions in the textual part of a textbook at the strarting level of learning Croatian as a foreign language and it tries, through their analysis, to determine to what extent above named principles are obeyed