Abstract
Major lexical items, such as verbs or nouns may undergo, through time, mor- phophonological and semantic changes to the extent that they become fully reanalyzed and recategorized word forms. The main aim of this study is to show the degree of reanalysis and morphologization of verbals and nominals into prepositions in both English and Modern Greek. It Will be shown how deverbal or denominal prepositions have developed from participles or oblique cases of verbs and nouns, respectively, into purely lexicalized lexemes with their own idiosyncratic meanings. We propose that the existence of the so-called synthetic prepositions is due to coalescence and morphologization as a result of the semantic bleaching and categorial reclassification of the verbs or nouns they derive from. Moreover, their morphophonological structure together with their distribution and semantics will be discussed thoroughly.
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