• 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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  • 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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  • phrases, and circumpositional phrases. Adpositional phrases contain an adposition (preposition, postposition, or circumposition) as head and usually a complement...
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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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    (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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    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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    many prepositions, genitive for possessors), articles precede nouns, adpositions are largely prepositional, relative clauses follow the noun they modify...
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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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  • 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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