• Adpositions are a class of words used to express spatial or temporal relations (in, under, towards, behind, ago, etc.) or mark various semantic roles...
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  • phrases, and circumpositional phrases. Adpositional phrases contain an adposition (preposition, postposition, or circumposition) as head and usually a complement...
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  • predicate. In the examples below, the adverbial phrase is italicized and the adposition is bolded: Mary, the aspiring actress, became upset as one of the casting...
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  • In grammar, a genitive construction or genitival construction is a type of grammatical construction used to express a relation between two nouns such as...
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  • compounds. Adpositions are mostly before but are often after their object. If the object of an adposition is marked in the dative case, an adposition may conceivably...
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    left-branching languages, it has no prepositions, only postpositions (see Adposition). ex. පොත /potə book යට jaʈə/ under පොත යට /potə jaʈə/ book under "under...
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  • to twelve lexical categories, e.g. Lexical categories adjective (A), adposition (preposition, postposition, circumposition) (P), adverb (Adv), coordinate...
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    Chinese. They are extremely poor in adpositions: serial verb constructions replace most functions of adpositions in languages like English. For example...
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    (without the boy), "puero" being the ablative form of "puer". A few adpositions, however, govern a noun in the genitive (such as "gratia" and "tenus")...
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  • quantifiers, demonstratives, and possessives) measure words or classifiers adpositions (prepositions, postpositions, and circumpositions) preverbs pronouns...
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    many prepositions, genitive for possessors), articles precede nouns, adpositions are largely prepositional, relative clauses follow the noun they modify...
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  • append one of the Adpositions below, then append the coverb/verb with the suffix "-ing" or "-ingly" In many languages, the adposition fuses with a verb...
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  • cross-linguistically related only to the place of role-marking connectives (adpositions and subordinators), which links the phenomena with the semantic mapping...
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  • above. While most languages communicate this concept through the use of adpositions, there are some, such as Hungarian, which make use of cases for this...
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  • In linguistics, a compound is a lexeme (less precisely, a word or sign) that consists of more than one stem. Compounding, composition or nominal composition...
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  • can be of multiple lexical categories, but is most commonly an affix or adposition).: 17–18  Use of the comitative case gives prominence to the accompanier...
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  • concerning anything knows. "That person knows everything about guitars." Adposition Chinese particles Okinawan particles Korean particles Japanese counter...
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    Unlike most other Indo-Iranian languages, Pashto uses all three types of adpositions—prepositions, postpositions, and circumpositions. *The retroflex rhotic...
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  • Reflexive Relative Resumptive Strong / Weak Subject / Object / Prepositional Adposition Casally modulated Inflected Stranded Determiner Article Demonstrative...
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  • particles. Possession is essentially different from the other types of adposition modification in that it marks a relationship between two noun phrases...
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  • Reflexive Relative Resumptive Strong / Weak Subject / Object / Prepositional Adposition Casally modulated Inflected Stranded Determiner Article Demonstrative...
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  • determine the percentage of body fat Notation in dependency grammars for an adposition Adap language, a dialect of Dzongkha, the national language of Bhutan...
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  • Reflexive Relative Resumptive Strong / Weak Subject / Object / Prepositional Adposition Casally modulated Inflected Stranded Determiner Article Demonstrative...
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  • Reflexive Relative Resumptive Strong / Weak Subject / Object / Prepositional Adposition Casally modulated Inflected Stranded Determiner Article Demonstrative...
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    Estonian grammar is the grammar of the Estonian language. Estonian consonant gradation is a grammatical process that affects obstruent consonants at the...
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  • Reflexive Relative Resumptive Strong / Weak Subject / Object / Prepositional Adposition Casally modulated Inflected Stranded Determiner Article Demonstrative...
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  • v t e Adpositions of the world's languages Phonologies Orthographies Grammars Adjectives Adpositions Determiners Nouns Pronouns Verbs English Korean Latvian...
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    expressions that denote spatial and abstract relations and serve as adpositions, most of them built on the dative and genitive cases. They are almost...
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  • Georgian grammar has many distinctive and extremely complex features, such as split ergativity and a polypersonal verb agreement system. Georgian has its...
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  • government is government of the grammatical case of a noun, wherein a verb or adposition is said to 'govern' the grammatical case of its noun phrase complement...
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