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Adposition ( Concept )
http://purl.org/linguistics/gold/Adposition


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      |_ Abstract
            |_ Linguistic Property
                  |_ Part Of Speech Property
                        |_ Functor
                              |_ Adposition

Direct SubConcepts:

Postposition  Preposition  



Definition:

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].


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