Showing posts with label adposition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label adposition. Show all posts

Thursday, October 13, 2011

What is an adposition?


What is an adposition?

 

Definition
  An adposition is a cover term for prepositions and postpositions. It is a member of a closed set of items that
 
  • occur before or after a complement composed of a noun phrase, noun, pronoun, or clause that functions as a noun phrase, and
  • form a single structure with the complement to express its grammatical and semantic relation to another unit within a clause.
Examples (English)
 
  • He went to the races.
  • He promised to help with whatever was the matter.
Kinds
  Here are some kinds of adpositions:
 
Generic
  An adposition is a kind of
 

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