Abstract
Compared with other parts of speech, the prepositions are relatively few in number, but they find frequent use. A random study of Spanish prose as reported by Tomas Navarro' has revealed that prepositions account for 18.07% of all parts of speech. As to the stock of prepositions, one could reasonably assume that the number in the characteristically analytic Romance tongues would exceed that found in Latin, a synthetic language, but such is not the case. Spanish has approximately one-half the number of prepositions found in Latin.2 This means that many new functions and meanings were added to the limited stock of prepositions that Spanish inherited.
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