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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(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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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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quantifiers, demonstratives, and possessives) measure words or classifiers adpositions (prepositions, postpositions, and circumpositions) preverbs pronouns...
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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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to twelve lexical categories, e.g. Lexical categories adjective (A), adposition (preposition, postposition, circumposition) (P), adverb (Adv), coordinate...
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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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many prepositions, genitive for possessors), articles precede nouns, adpositions are largely prepositional, relative clauses follow the noun they modify...
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is accommodated in terms of catenae, since each predicate is a catena. Adposition Analytic language Compound verb Deflexion (linguistics) Dependency grammar...
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Coverb (section Common proverb Adpositions)
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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Argobba language (section Adpositions)
and also the formation, especially in the addition of pre- or suffixed adpositions. It is differentiated between 4 groups of pronouns. There are 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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concerning anything knows. "That person knows everything about guitars." Adposition Chinese particles Okinawan particles Korean particles Japanese counter...
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Compound (linguistics) (section Compound adpositions)
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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Case government (section Adpositions)
linguistics, case government is a type of government wherein a verb or adposition imposes grammatical case requirements on its noun phrase complement. For...
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Hurrian language (section Adpositions)
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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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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Georgian grammar (section Adpositions)
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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Unlike most other Indo-Iranian languages, Pashto uses all three types of adpositions—prepositions, postpositions, and circumpositions. *The retroflex rhotic...
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"somewhere in front of" The English language features three types of adpositions, prepositions (preceding), postpositions (following), and circumpositions...
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Estonian grammar (section Adpositions)
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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Creole has general locative marking (GLM, also called general locative adposition, goal/source (in)difference and motion-to=motion-from). This means that...
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Finnish grammar (section Adpositions)
The Finnish language is spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns elsewhere. Unlike the Indo-European languages spoken in...
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names: authors list (link) Hewson, John; Bubeník, Vít (2006). From Case to Adposition: The Development of Configurational Syntax in Indo-European Languages...
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relationship between the order of the object and verb the order of an adposition and its complement the order of relative clause and head noun. In some...
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