Abstract
The article deals with usage of postpositions in the Czech language. It is considered that postpositions are units fulfilling in a syntagm a function equivalent to a function of prepositions but used in postposition to a controlled noun.
The research is based on the Czech national corpus (Corpus SYN 2010). The article concerns search of postpositions in this corpus and the following analysis of their frequency lists, collocation candidates lists, and concordances.
Special attention is paid to deadverbial units navzdory, napospas, vstříc, naproti which according to the corpus are regularly used not only in preposition but also in postposition to a noun (or its substitutes). The subject of the analysis is frequency, combinatorics and syntagmatic function of these units used in postposition.
Problematic issues and main directions of the following research of the Czech postpositions are outlined.