adposition (Q15490)
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a term
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | adposition |
a term |
Statements
An adposition is a part of speech whose members are of a closed set and occur before or after a complement composed of a noun phrase, noun, pronoun, or clause that functions as a noun phrase and forms a single structure with the complement to express its grammatical and semantic relation to another unit within a clause [Comrie 1989,91; Crystal 1997, 305; Payne 1997,86].
21 August 2021
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