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Adposition

In linguistics, adpositions are a class of words used to express spatial or temporal relations (in, under, towards, behind, ago, etc.) or mark various semantic roles (of, for). The most common adpositions are prepositions (which precede their complement) and postpositions (which follow their complement).

Grammatical properties, Classification of adpositions & Overlaps with other categories

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Grammatical properties

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Classification of adpositions

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Overlaps with other categories

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Semantic functions

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Overview

Terminology

Grammatical properties

Classification of adpositions

Stranding

Simple versus complex

Proper versus improper

Different forms of complement

Semantic functions

Inflected adpositions

Overlaps with other categories

Bibliography

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Adposition

Top relations

related to Bibliography · 77
Adposition → Accessed, Adpositions, Alan, Ambipositions, Approaches, Areal Effects, Auxiliaries, Brett, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Carl-von-Ossietzky-Universitat Oldenburg, Civil Tone, Complex Prepositions, Donald, Dordrecht, English Grammar, English Language, English Studies, Gap, Genesis
related to Simple versus complex · 15
Adposition → Complex, English, Examples, For, German, Grund, Gunsten, Hilfe, Lasten, Many, Simple, Stelle, The, This, Ungunsten
related to Adverbs and particles · 9
Adposition → Dutch, Examples, German, Many English, Some, Such, The, There, This
related to Semantic functions · 9
Adposition → Adpositions, American English, Because, British English, In, Most, The, This, Usage
related to Case affixes · 8
Adposition → Adpositions, English, For, German, In, Russian, Some, Sometimes
related to Grammatical properties · 7
Adposition → An, In English, It, Language Structures, PP, The, The World Atlas
related to Inflected adpositions · 7
Adposition → Celtic, In, Indo-European, Irish, Polish, Some, Welsh
related to Classification of adpositions · 5
Adposition → As, English, European, Examples, While
related to Different forms of complement · 5
Adposition → As, French, Let's, This, We
related to Conjunctions · 2
Adposition → It, Some

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Important terminology

complement prepositions english preposition phrase adpositions case languages example noun word used may words grammatical form prepositional postpositions meaning latin

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Adpositionis acircumposition0.90text
ininstance ofwords0.80text
underinstance ofwords0.80text
of precede their objectsinstance ofwords0.80text
such asinstance ofwords0.80text
articlesinstance oftogether with its specifier and modifiers0.80text
adjectivesinstance oftogether with its specifier and modifiers0.80text
etcinstance oftogether with its specifier and modifiers0.80text
word for wordinstance ofThe term interposition has been used for adpositions in structures0.80text
French coup sur coupinstance ofThe term interposition has been used for adpositions in structures0.80text
Swedishinstance ofas well as North Germanic languages0.80text
Vatainstance ofCongo languages0.80text

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    Adposition

    Nodes174
    Edges173
    Triples167
    Avg. degree1.99
    Density0.011494
    Components1
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