The Old English prepositions in, innan, and into govern both the accusative and the dative, The present study investigates to what extent the following distinction can be observed in the pharses introduced by the above-mentioned prepositions: they govern the accusative when 'destination' is impliecl, and the dative when 'position' is implied. It has been revealed that this dictinction is consistent considerably in the phrases introduced by in. And it is possible to observe the correspondence

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... ween the selection of the accusative and the implication of 'destination' clearly in the phrases introduced by innan, but it is impossible to see, by lack of examples, the occurrence of the dative when the innan-phrase implies 'position.' As for intophrases, they imply 'clestination' in all the examples available regardless of the selection of the case.