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An adpositional phrase is a syntactic category that includes prepositional phrases, postpositional phrases, and circumpositional phrases.[1] Adpositional phrases contain an adposition (preposition, postposition, or circumposition) as head and usually a complement such as a noun phrase. Language syntax treats adpositional phrases as units that act as arguments or adjuncts. Prepositional and postpositional phrases differ by the order of the words used. Languages that are primarily head-initial such as English predominantly use prepositional phrases whereas head-final languages predominantly employ postpositional phrases. Many languages have both types, as well as circumpositional phrases.

  1. ^ Adpositional phrases are discussed by, for instance, Stockwell (1977:60ff.), Lockwood (2002:54f.), and Tallerman (2005:48f.).

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Adpositional phrase

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Argobba language

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Argobba there are three different kinds of phrases; the nominal phrase, the verbal phrase and the adpositional phrase. They are all composed of a word that...

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Adposition

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Tamasheq language

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Traditional grammar

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in a sentence. Adpositional phrases can add to or modify the meaning of nouns, verbs, or adjectives. An adpositional phrase is a phrase that features either...

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Infinitive

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(verbal nouns) in that they do not inflect for case or occur in adpositional phrases. Instead, infinitives often originate in earlier inflectional forms...

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Syntax

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inefficient patterning such as the VO languages Chinese, with the adpositional phrase before the verb, and Finnish, which has postpositions, but there...

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Pashto grammar

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infinitive وهل: If the actor, if expressed, will most likely appear in an adpositional phrase governed by the circumposition د ...له خوا /də...lə xwā/ or د...له...

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Linguistic typology

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"inefficient" patterning. These include the VO languages Chinese, with the adpositional phrase before the verb, and Finnish, which has postpositions. But there...

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Passive voice

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argument. It is marked by a non-core case or becomes part of an adpositional phrase, etc. This can be omitted, but there is always the option of including...

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Majhi language

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when it is reduplicated with the suffix as "kapal-e kapal," the combined phrase means 'all heads.':20 Verbs do not have such a suffix. For example, the...

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Adpositional case

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Word order

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constituents in a phrase can vary as much as the order of constituents in a clause. Normally, the noun phrase and the adpositional phrase are investigated...

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Index of linguistics articles

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Adessive case - Adjective - Adjunct - Adposition - Adpositional phrase - Adverb - Adverbial - Adverbial phrase - Affix - Affricate consonant - Agglutination...

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Talysh language

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vowel-final main noun in a noun phrase with another noun modifying it; and, finally, the nominal element in an adpositional phrases with certain adpositions...

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Dutch grammar

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which they belong. rode appels – red apples In contrast to English, adpositional phrases come in the order time–manner–place, again as in German, so that...

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Inflection

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Japanese). In dependent-marking languages, nouns in adpositional (prepositional or postpositional) phrases can carry inflectional morphemes. In head-marking...

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Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time

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absence) Presence or absence of adpositional phrases ("PP's" in the book, for prepositional or postpositional phrases) Presence or absence of non-finite...

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Tlahuitoltepec Mixe

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Noun phrase and adposition Standard of comparison, comparison mark and adjective Verb and adpositional phrases Verb and non-argument noun phrases Ayutla...

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Preposition stranding

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Istvan; Broekhuis, Hans (2015). Syntax of Dutch: adpositions and adpositional phrases. Amsterdam University Press. pp. 294ff. ISBN 978-9048522255. Archived...

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Anna Maria Di Sciullo

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Garzonio and S. Rossi (Eds.), Variation in P, Comparative Approaches to Adpositional Phrases. Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax. Oxford University Press. 218–244...

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Grammatical case

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for case; the position of a noun in the sentence expresses its case. Adpositional: Nouns are accompanied by words that mark case. With a few exceptions...

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Coverb

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fuses with a verb to a coverb composite. Korean has a higher variety of adpositional coverbs. The following examples demonstrate the usage of coverbs in Standard...

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Gaddang language

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