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