THE PROBLEM OF LEXICO-GRAMMATICAL ATTRIBUTION OF SOME RUSSIAN AND FRENCH COMPOUND PREPOSITIONS

Grammatical words have always been investigated in linguistics with and without changing trends and approaches. Recent decades brought forth to researches devoted to the derivative grammatical units, which are regarded from the grammaticalizational, constructional, comparative and other points of view. These researches revealed the problem of lexico-grammatical attribution of some derivative grammatical words. This article presents different approaches and theories to the question of compound prepositions class attribution existing mainly in Russian and French linguistics and pays special attention to reasons and arguments.