%0 Journal Article %T Why NA? %A Topoli¨½ska Zuzanna %J Ju£¿noslovenski Filolog %D 2011 %I Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute for the Serbian Language, Belgrade %R 10.2298/jfi1167101t %X The paper is conceived as answer to the question why just the locative / adlative preposition na was chosen as grammatical marker for both dative and genitive case relationship in the Balkan Slavic languages. As key process which triggered all the subsequent changes the author sees generalization of the dative morphological form in the adnominal position. %K nema %U http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-185X/2011/0350-185X1167101T.pdf