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Adpositions are a
class of
words used to
express spatial or
temporal relations (in, under, towards, behind, ago, etc.) or mark
various semantic roles...
- phrases, and cir****positional phrases.
Adpositional phrases contain an
adposition (preposition, postposition, or cir****position) as head and
usually a complement...
- 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...
- Chinese. They are
extremely poor in
adpositions:
serial verb
constructions replace most
functions of
adpositions in
languages like English. For example...
- 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...
- 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...
- (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")...
- many prepositions,
genitive for possessors),
articles precede nouns,
adpositions are
largely prepositional,
relative clauses follow the noun they modify...
- above.
While most
languages communicate this
concept through the use of
adpositions,
there are some, such as Hungarian,
which make use of
cases for this...
