Adposition. Glossary of Linguistic Terms

Adposition

Definition note

An adposition is a cover term for prepositions and postpositions. It is a member of a closed set of items that:

occur before or after a complement composed of a noun phrase, noun, pronoun, or clause that functions as a noun phrase, and
form a single structure with the complement to express its grammatical and semantic relation to another unit within a clause.

Example note

(English)

He went to the races.
He promised to help with whatever was the matter.

Bibliographic note 5

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Source: Hartmann and Stork 1972

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Source: Crystal 1980

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Page/s: 91

Source: Comrie 1989

Comrie, Bernard. 1989.Language universals and linguistic typology. 2nd edition. Chicago: University of Chicago.