Adpositions are a class of words used to express spatial or temporal relations (in, under, towards, behind, ago, etc.) or mark various semantic roles...

cross-linguistically related only to the place of role-marking connectives (adpositions and subordinators), which links the phenomena with the semantic mapping...

phrases, and circumpositional phrases. Adpositional phrases contain an adposition (preposition, postposition, or circumposition) as head and usually a complement...

(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")...

In grammar, a genitive construction or genitival construction is a type of grammatical construction used to express a relation between two nouns such as...

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...

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...

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...

Chinese. They are extremely poor in adpositions: serial verb constructions replace most functions of adpositions in languages like English. For example...

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...