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.
Kinds:
Examples:
(English)
- He went to the races.
- He promised to help with whatever was the matter.
See Also:
Source:
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181–183
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This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library. Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003.