• adpositional phrase is a syntactic category that includes prepositional phrases, postpositional phrases, and circumpositional phrases. Adpositional phrases...
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  • Argobba there are three different kinds of phrases; the nominal phrase, the verbal phrase and the adpositional phrase. They are all composed of a word that...
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  • phrase (PP). Adpositional Phrase: the head of an adpositional phrase (PP) is an adposition. Such phrases are called prepositional phrases if they are head-initial...
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  • The phrase formed by an adposition together with its complement is called an adpositional phrase (or prepositional phrase, postpositional phrase, etc...
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  • discourse-functional particles exist as well. For example, ɣás is an "extremely common" phrase-final particle that means 'only': i-t̩t̩ás, 3M.SG.SBJ-sleep.RES, ɣás only...
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  • Linguistic typology (category All articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases)
    "inefficient" patterning. These include the VO languages Chinese, with the adpositional phrase before the verb, and Finnish, which has postpositions. But there...
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  • Interface Usage List of syntactic phenomena Adjective Adjective phrase Adjunct Adpositional phrase Adverb Antecedent Appositive Argument Article Aspect Attributive...
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    when it is reduplicated with the suffix as "kapal-e kapal," the combined phrase means 'all heads.':20 Verbs do not have such a suffix. For example, the...
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  • in a sentence. Adpositional phrases can add to or modify the meaning of nouns, verbs, or adjectives. An adpositional phrase is a phrase that features either...
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  • Infinitive (redirect from Infinitive phrase)
    (verbal nouns) in that they do not inflect for case or occur in adpositional phrases. Instead, infinitives often originate in earlier inflectional forms...
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    infinitive وهل: If the actor, if expressed, will most likely appear in an adpositional phrase governed by the circumposition د ...له خوا /də...lə xwā/ or د...له...
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  • category associated with the theta role, such as a determiner phrase (DP) or adpositional phrase (PP). This mingles theta-theory with the notion of subcategorization...
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  • core of the clause, containing the arguments, normally noun phrases, or adpositional phrases, that the predicate in the nucleus requires. Van Valin also...
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  • PREP) and the postpositional case (abbreviated POST) - generalised as adpositional cases - are grammatical cases that respectively mark the object of a...
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  • argument. It is marked by a non-core case or becomes part of an adpositional phrase, etc. This can be omitted, but there is always the option of including...
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  • constituents in a phrase can vary as much as the order of constituents in a clause. Normally, the noun phrase and the adpositional phrase are investigated...
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  • Adessive case - Adjective - Adjunct - Adposition - Adpositional phrase - Adverb - Adverbial - Adverbial phrase - Affix - Affricate consonant - Agglutination...
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    Japanese). In dependent-marking languages, nouns in adpositional (prepositional or postpositional) phrases can carry inflectional morphemes. In head-marking...
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    vowel-final main noun in a noun phrase with another noun modifying it; and, finally, the nominal element in an adpositional phrases with certain adpositions...
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  • time–manner–place is a sentence structure that defines the order of adpositional phrases and adverbs in a sentence: "yesterday", "by car", "to the store"...
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    characteristics. Although verbs follow their direct objects, oblique adpositional phrases (like "in the house", "with timber") typically come after the verb...
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  • before standard of comparison Verb comes before adpositional phrase Adpositions come before the noun phrase (i.e. they are prepositions) Verb comes before...
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  • exhibit a tendency towards using a time–manner–place ordering of adpositional phrases. In linguistic typology, one can usefully distinguish two types of...
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  • Noun phrase and adposition Standard of comparison, comparison mark and adjective Verb and adpositional phrases Verb and non-argument noun phrases Ayutla...
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  • Istvan; Broekhuis, Hans (2015). Syntax of Dutch: adpositions and adpositional phrases. Amsterdam University Press. pp. 294ff. ISBN 978-9048522255. Archived...
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  • Garzonio and S. Rossi (Eds.), Variation in P, Comparative Approaches to Adpositional Phrases. Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax. Oxford University Press. 218–244...
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  • elements such as adjectives (which permit the intensifier –näŋä), adpositional phrases, quantifiers, demonstratives, possessives, personalizing clitics...
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  • which they belong. rode appels – red apples In contrast to English, adpositional phrases come in the order time–manner–place, again as in German, so that...
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  • Western Tlacolula Valley Zapotec (category All articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases)
    the head-initial order of syntactic phrases including noun phrases, adpositional phrases, and quantifier phrases. A few varieties of Zapotec have Passive...
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  • absence) Presence or absence of adpositional phrases ("PP's" in the book, for prepositional or postpositional phrases) Presence or absence of non-finite...
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