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Adpositional phrase

An adpositional phrase is a syntactic category that includes prepositional phrases, postpositional phrases, and circumpositional phrases. 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…

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PrepositionNounPronounGerundModifiers
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Phrasal verbShifting
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Syntactic categoryPhrasesAdpositionHeadComplement
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Adpositional phrase

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Triples33
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.052632
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related to Representation · 6
Adpositional phrase → Adv, English, Like, PP, The, These
is a · 2
Adpositional phrase → adjunct in the clause or noun phrase that it appears in, syntactic category that includes prepositional phrases
related to Function · 2
Adpositional phrase → More, These
related to Types · 1
Adpositional phrase → There

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phrases prepositional phrase english postpositional preposition adpositional circumpositional complement noun postposition head following two trees languages types syntax one dependency

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Adpositional phraseis asyntactic category that includes prepositional phrases0.90text
Adpositional phraseis aadjunct in the clause or noun phrase that it appears in0.90text
a noun phraseinstance ofas head and usually a complement0.80text
English predominantly use prepositional phrases whereas head-final languages predominantly employ postpositional phrasesinstance ofLanguages that are primarily head-initial0.80text
Basqueinstance ofpossibly with one or more modifiers.A prepositional phrase can function as an adjective or adverb.Postpositional phrasesPostpositional elements are frequent in head-final languages0.80text
Estonianinstance ofpossibly with one or more modifiers.A prepositional phrase can function as an adjective or adverb.Postpositional phrasesPostpositional elements are frequent in head-final languages0.80text
Finnishinstance ofpossibly with one or more modifiers.A prepositional phrase can function as an adjective or adverb.Postpositional phrasesPostpositional elements are frequent in head-final languages0.80text
Georgianinstance ofpossibly with one or more modifiers.A prepositional phrase can function as an adjective or adverb.Postpositional phrasesPostpositional elements are frequent in head-final languages0.80text
Koreaninstance ofpossibly with one or more modifiers.A prepositional phrase can function as an adjective or adverb.Postpositional phrasesPostpositional elements are frequent in head-final languages0.80text
Japaneseinstance ofpossibly with one or more modifiers.A prepositional phrase can function as an adjective or adverb.Postpositional phrasesPostpositional elements are frequent in head-final languages0.80text
Hindiinstance ofpossibly with one or more modifiers.A prepositional phrase can function as an adjective or adverb.Postpositional phrasesPostpositional elements are frequent in head-final languages0.80text
Urduinstance ofpossibly with one or more modifiers.A prepositional phrase can function as an adjective or adverb.Postpositional phrasesPostpositional elements are frequent in head-final languages0.80text

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