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Phrase modifying a lexical item
adpositional phrase is a syntactic category that includes prepositional phrases, postpositional phrases, and circumpositional phrases. Adpositional phrases
Adpositional_phrase
Proposed parameter in linguistics
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
Head-directionality_parameter
Semitic language spoken in northeastern Ethiopia
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
Argobba_language
Tuareg Berber macro-language of North Africa
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
Tamasheq_language
Class of words expressing spatiotemporal relations or semantic roles
The phrase formed by an adposition together with its complement is called an adpositional phrase (or prepositional phrase, postpositional phrase, etc
Adposition
Branch of linguistics
"inefficient" patterning. These include the VO languages Chinese, with the adpositional phrase before the verb, and Finnish, which has postpositions. But there
Linguistic_typology
Grammatical form
(verbal nouns) in that they do not inflect for case or occur in adpositional phrases. Instead, infinitives often originate in earlier inflectional forms
Infinitive
Word classes, largely corresponding to traditional parts of speech
syntactic categories. In phrase structure grammars, the phrasal categories (e.g. noun phrase, verb phrase, adpositional phrase, etc.) are also syntactic
Syntactic_category
Framework for the description of the structure of a language
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
Traditional_grammar
Indo-Aryan language of Nepal
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
Majhi_language
Grammar of the Pashto language
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
Pashto_grammar
System responsible for combining morphemes into complex structures
Interface Usage List of syntactic phenomena Adjective Adjective phrase Adjunct Adpositional phrase Adverb Antecedent Appositive Argument Article Aspect Attributive
Syntax
Process of word formation, by alteration to express grammatical categories
needed]). In dependent-marking languages, nouns in adpositional (prepositional or postpositional) phrases can carry inflectional morphemes. In head-marking
Inflection
Phrase in linguistics
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
Theta_role
Grammatical construction
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
Passive_voice
Order of syntactic constituents
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
Word_order
Grammatical case
prep) and the postpositional case (abbreviated post) - generalised as adpositional cases - are grammatical cases that respectively mark the object of a
Adpositional_case
Northwestern Iranian language spoken in Northern Iran and Southern Azerbaijan
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
Talysh_language
Adessive case - Adjective - Adjunct - Adposition - Adpositional phrase - Adverb - Adverbial - Adverbial phrase - Affix - Affricate consonant - Agglutination
Index_of_linguistics_articles
Zapotec language of Oaxaca, Mexico
the head-initial order of syntactic phrases including noun phrases, adpositional phrases, and quantifier phrases. A few varieties of Zapotec have Passive
Western Tlacolula Valley Zapotec
Western_Tlacolula_Valley_Zapotec
Mixe language of Oaxaca, Mexico
Noun phrase and adposition Standard of comparison, comparison mark and adjective Verb and adpositional phrases Verb and non-argument noun phrases Ayutla
Tlahuitoltepec_Mixe
1992 non-fiction work by Johanna Nichols
absence) Presence or absence of adpositional phrases ("PP's" in the book, for prepositional or postpositional phrases) Presence or absence of non-finite
Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time
Linguistic_Diversity_in_Space_and_Time
American linguist
core of the clause, containing the arguments, normally noun phrases, or adpositional phrases, that the predicate in the nucleus requires. Van Valin also
Robert_Van_Valin_Jr.
Linguistic classification
before standard of comparison Verb comes before adpositional phrase Adpositions come before the noun phrase (i.e. they are prepositions) Verb comes before
Verb-initial_word_order
Large language family of Sub-Saharan Africa
characteristics. Although verbs follow their direct objects, oblique adpositional phrases (like "in the house", "with timber") typically come after the verb
Niger–Congo_languages
Grammatical feature of adverb order
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"
Time–manner–place
Feature of language
exhibit a tendency towards using a time–manner–place ordering of adpositional phrases. In linguistic typology, one can usefully distinguish two types of
Subject–object–verb word order
Subject–object–verb_word_order
Grammar of the Dutch language
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
Dutch_grammar
Extinct language of Venezuela
numerals from one to three", and locative classifiers in locative adpositional phrases. No noun classifiers proper occur in Maipure, but some fossilized
Maipure_language
Syntactical occurrence
Istvan; Broekhuis, Hans (2015). Syntax of Dutch: adpositions and adpositional phrases. Amsterdam University Press. pp. 294ff. ISBN 978-9048522255. Archived
Preposition_stranding
Canadian linguist
Garzonio and S. Rossi (Eds.), Variation in P, Comparative Approaches to Adpositional Phrases. Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax. Oxford University Press. 218–244
Anna_Maria_Di_Sciullo
Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines
like them, it is characterized by a dearth of positional/directional adpositional adjunct words. Temporal references are usually accomplished using agglutinated
Gaddang_language
Language
elements such as adjectives (which permit the intensifier –näŋä), adpositional phrases, quantifiers, demonstratives, possessives, personalizing clitics
Menya_language
Grammatical construct resembling a verb
fuses with a verb to a coverb composite. Korean has a higher variety of adpositional coverbs. The following examples demonstrate the usage of coverbs in Standard
Coverb
Categorization of nouns and modifiers by function
for case; the position of a noun in the sentence expresses its case. Adpositional: Nouns are accompanied by words that mark case. With a few exceptions
Grammatical_case
Group of Torricelli languages of Papua New Guinea
typical Papuan SOV to a SVO order, along with a corresponding shift in adpositional order. Most modifiers usually precede the noun, though as a result of
Arapesh_languages
Hmongic language spoken in China
subject-verb-object. Within the noun phrase, possessors precede possessed nouns, while relative clauses precede the nouns they modify. Noun phrases have the form (possessive)
A-Hmao_language
Dialect of Modern Greek
Cappadocian Greek. Diachronica 33(1), 31–66. Karatsareas, Petros. 2016b. The adpositional cycle in Asia Minor Greek: a tale of multiple causation. Journal of Greek
Cappadocian_Greek
Native alphabet of the Korean language
separated by a space. The first is "학교" (lit. 'school') with an attached adpositional particle "에". The second is "간다", a conjugated verb. North Korean punctuation
Hangul
Grammatical case denoting accompaniment
prepositions, postpositions and circumpositions. Examples of languages that use adpositional constructions to express comitative relations are French, which uses
Comitative_case
Indo-European language native to the Indian subcontinent
gerunds may be used adpositionally. Some frequent conjunctions such as ca ('and'), va ('or') are added enclitically to the phrases they join or to the
Pali
Latin Speech
for good') When the indirect question is expected to be an oblique or adpositional case, it is treated like an object case (and the preposition dropped):
Latin_indirect_speech
Generative grammar
predicates in verbless clauses can be adjectives or nouns, possessors, adpositionals, or adverbs. Verbless clause example: Miringmi gum bardakurrumi. good(v)
Verbless_clause
Endangered Tupian language of Brazil
which includes phrasal categories, as well as noun, verb, adpositional, and adverb phrases. The final chapter of her dissertation focuses on the structure
Mekéns_language
Dutch linguist (born 1948)
later work he showed that, just like nominal and verbal projections, the adpositional projection can contain functional material, specifically so-called functional
Henk_van_Riemsdijk
Endangered Mirndi language spoken in Australia
and [-rni] for other nominals) and the dative case (/-rna/). Semantic/adpositional case markings include the instrumental case to mark inanimate subjects
Jingulu_language
Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Cora people of northern Mexico and western USA
inflecting verbs with many affixes and clitics. There are a number of adpositional clitics that can also be used as relational nouns. Different types of
Cora_language
Oceanic language of Manus Province, Papua New Guinea
number and first, second and third person, but not gender. The range of adpositional forms is limited, since most spatial relations are expressed either by
Baluan-Pam_language
ADPOSITIONAL PHRASE
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Girl/Female
Indian
Phrase from the holy Quran
Boy/Male
Tamil
Onkar is the first phrase in the mul Mantra meaning there is only one God, it is found in the gurmukhi script and is consequently also part of the Sikh morning prayer, Japji Sahib
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname for someone with beautiful long hair, from Middle English fair feax ‘beautiful tresses’. This was a common descriptive phrase in Middle English; the alliterative poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight refers to ‘fair fanning fax’ encircling the shoulders of the doughty warrior.Thomas Fairfax (1693–1781), an army officer from Leeds Castle, Kent, England, first came to VA in 1735 and settled on maternal estates there as a proprietor in 1747.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of the numerous places called Upton. The majority of them are named from Old English up- ‘upper’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. One in Essex, however, was originally named with the phrase upp in tūne ‘up in the settlement’, i.e. the higher part of the settlement; and one in Worcestershire is probably so called from the Old English personal name Ubba + tūn.
Surname or Lastname
English, German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic)
English, German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a maker of sacks or bags, from Old English sacc, Middle High German sack, German Sack ‘sack’. Bahlow also suggests someone who carried sacks.German : topographic from Middle High German sack ‘sack’, ‘end of a valley or area of cultivation’.Dutch : from a reduced form of the personal name Zacharias.Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : from an acronym of the Hebrew phrase Zera Keshodim ‘Seed of the Holy’ (referring to martyred ancestors), or from a short form of the personal name Isaac.
Surname or Lastname
English, Scottish, Dutch, and German
English, Scottish, Dutch, and German : metonymic occupational name for a herring fisher or for a seller of the fish, Middle English hering, Dutch haring, Middle High German hærinc. In some cases it may have been a nickname in the sense of a trifle, something of little value, a meaning which is found in medieval phrases and proverbial expressions such as ‘to like neither herring nor barrel’, i.e. not to like something at all.German : habitational name from Herringen in Westphalia.Dutch : from a personal name, a derivative of a Germanic compound name with the first element hari, heri ‘army’.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant spelling of Hering.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by an ash tree, from the Middle English phrase at(te) asche ‘at (the) ash’.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of bags and purses, from German Tasche ‘bag’, ‘purse’. Compare Taschner.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : possibly a phrase name from Middle English tred(en) ‘to tread’ + weye ‘way’, ‘path’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from the medieval female personal name Rosemunde, a Norman name, actually a compound of the Germanic elements hros ‘horse’ + mund ‘protection’, but associated from an early date in the popular mind with the Latin phrase rosa munda ‘pure rose’, an epithet of the Virgin Mary.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name or name adopted by the husband of a woman bearing the Yiddish personal name Royze (see Rose 3).Americanized spelling of German Rosemann.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by an ash tree, from the Middle English phrase at(te) asche ‘at (the) ash’, often at(te) esche in some dialects, especially in southeastern England.Probably an altered spelling of Tesch.
Surname or Lastname
South German
South German : occupational name for an official in charge of the legal auction of property confiscated in default of a fine; such a sale was known in Middle High German as a gant (from Italian incanto, a derivative of Late Latin inquantare ‘to auction’, from the phrase In quantum? ‘To how much (is the price raised)?’).German : metonymic occupational name for a cooper, from Middle High German ganter, kanter ‘barrel rack’.German : variant of Gander 3.English : occupational name for a glover, from Old French gantier, an agent derivative of gant ‘glove’ (see Gant).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Farwell.English : according to Reaney the name ‘appears frequently in Suffolk from 1275 to 1417, always without a preposition, and is, no doubt, a phrase name, Fare well!’.
Surname or Lastname
French
French : variant of Rivière, Rivoire, or Rivier, topographic name for someone living on the banks of a river, French rivier ‘bank’, or habitational name from any of the many places in France named with this word.English : nickname from Middle English revere ‘reiver’, ‘robber’.English : topographic name for someone who lived on the brow of a hill, from a misdivision of the Middle English phrase atter evere ‘at the brow or edge’ (from Old English yfer, efer ‘edge’) or a habitational name from a place named with this phrase, as for example River in West Sussex or Rivar in Wiltshire.Jewish (from Italy) : habitational name from a place in Mantua named Revere.The MA patriot Paul Revere (1734–1818), who in April 1775 undertook a famous ride from Boston to Lexington to warn of the approach of British troops, was a silversmith and instrument maker. He was descended from French Huguenots called Rivoire.
Surname or Lastname
English (Devon)
English (Devon) : metonymic occupational name for a trapper or hunter, from Middle English trayne, Old French traine ‘guile’, ‘snare’, ‘trap’.English (Devon) : topographic name from Middle English atte trewen ‘at the trees’, or a habitational name from any of the places named with this phrase, for example Train, Traine, or Trewyn, all in Devon.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived on an island or patch of firm ground surrounded by fens, from a misdivision of the Middle English phrase atter ye ‘at the island’ (from Old English ēg, īeg ‘island’).English : topographic name for someone who lived near a river or stream, from a misdivision of the Middle English phrase atter eye ‘at the river’ (from Old English ēa ‘river’).English : topographic name for someone living at a place where rye (Old English ryge) was grown, or perhaps a metonymic occupational name for someone who grew or sold it.Norwegian : habitational name from a farmstead so named, most of them from Old Norse rjóðr ‘clearing in a forest’, but others from ry ‘dry place with stones’.Danish : habitational name from a place called Rye.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Middle English haue, habbe ‘(may he/you) have’ + god ‘good’, perhaps a nickname for someone who habitually used this phrase.
Surname or Lastname
English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Déville in Seine-Maritime, France, probably named with Latin dei villa ‘settlement of (i.e. under the protection of) God’. This name was interpreted early on as a prepositional phrase de ville or de val and applied to dwellers in a town or valley (see Ville and Vale).English : nickname from Middle English devyle, Old English dēofol ‘devil’ (Latin diabolus, from Greek diabolos ‘slanderer’, ‘enemy’), referring to a mischievous youth or perhaps to someone who had acted the role of the Devil in a pageant or mystery play.French : variant of Ville, with the preposition de.
Surname or Lastname
English (West Midlands)
English (West Midlands) : nickname from Middle English trowthe, trouthe ‘good faith’, ‘loyalty’. By my troth was a common phrase emphasizing the veracity of an assertion, and the nickname may have been bestowed on someone who used it habitually or to excess.
Surname or Lastname
English and French
English and French : nickname for an impetuous person, from the Old French phrase trop isnel ‘too swift’.
Girl/Female
Muslim
Phrase from the holy Quran
ADPOSITIONAL PHRASE
ADPOSITIONAL PHRASE
Boy/Male
Muslim/Islamic
Success. Name of a Persian King
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
The King whose Skin Colour is Black
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
A Gift; A Present
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Tribute
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Easy; Convenient
Girl/Female
Indian
Sunset
Male
Egyptian
, a prophet and priest of Amen Ra.
Female
Egyptian
, rightly guided.
Girl/Female
Arabic, Australian, Muslim
Emotions
Girl/Female
Indian, Telugu
Sunlight; Ray of Sunlight
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v. i.
To group notes into phrases; as, he phrases well. See Phrase, n., 4.
a.
Alt. of Phraseological
n.
A vulgar phrase or expression.
n.
A collection of phrases; a phrase book.
n.
A formal phrase used in concluding a plea.
a.
Of or pertaining to phraseology; consisting of a peculiar form of words.
n.
A collector or coiner of phrases.
n.
The way or fashion of people at any particular time; temporary mode, custom, or practice; popular reception for the time; -- used now generally in the phrase in vogue.
v. i.
To use proper or fine phrases.
n.
A brief expression, sometimes a single word, but usually two or more words forming an expression by themselves, or being a portion of a sentence; as, an adverbial phrase.
n.
Either one of the Bears. See the Phrases below.
n.
A turning; a time; -- chiefly used in phrases signifying that the part is to be repeated one, two, or more times; as, una volta, once. Seconda volta, second time, points to certain modifications in the close of a repeated strain.
n.
A word occurring in the phrase real vellon. See the Note under Its Real.
n.
Customary use or employment, as of a word or phrase in a particular sense or signification.
n.
Vanity; emptiness; -- now used only in the phrase in vain.
imp. & p. p.
of Phrase
n.
A word of uncertain signification, used only in the phrase with a wanion, apparently equivalent to with a vengeance, with a plague, or with misfortune.
a.
Pertaining to apposition; put in apposition syntactically.
a.
Of or pertaining to position.
n.
A symbol for a phrase.