Manifestation of Causal Meaning in Complex English Prepositions

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of one of the urgent problems of linguistics - the semantic properties of complex prepositions with a causal meaning in modern English. The semantic specificity of complex prepositions is associated with their nominal components or with the dictionary meaning of the words that form them and directly determines their inseparable word formation and lexico-semantic relations with other important words. The degree of desemantization of the nominal basis of complex prepositions with a causal meaning predetermines not only their semantic specificity, but also the degree of prepositionalization of their combinations used to express a special type of causal semantics in speech.