-
common adpositions are
prepositions (those
which precede their complement) and
postpositions (those
which follow their complement). An
adposition typically...
- Chinese. They are
extremely poor in
adpositions:
serial verb
constructions replace most
functions of
adpositions in
languages like English. For example...
-
expressions that
denote spatial and
abstract relations and
serve as
adpositions, most of them
built on the
dative and
genitive cases. They are almost...
- from ****anese,
where the case
markers perform a role
similar to that of
adpositions: a. ..mise ni
store to = 'to the store' b. ..ie kara
house from = 'from...
- finally, the
nominal element in an
adpositional phrases with
certain adpositions. The
examples below are from
Pirejko 1976 PRST:present stem REFL:reflexive...
-
grammars classify prepositions and
postpositions as
different kinds of
adpositions while other grammars categorize both
under the
heading of the more common...
- "somewhere in
front of" The
English language features three types of
adpositions,
prepositions (preceding),
postpositions (following), and cir****positions...
-
Georgian grammar has many
distinctive and
extremely complex features, such as
split ergativity and a
polypersonal verb
agreement system.
Georgian has its...
- In linguistics, a
compound is a
lexeme (less precisely, a word or sign) that
consists of more than one stem. Compounding,
composition or
nominal composition...
- cross-linguistically
related only to the
place of role-marking
connectives (
adpositions and subordinators),
which links the
phenomena with the
semantic mapping...
