adposition

English

Etymology

Fromad-+‎position,fromLatinadpositio,fromadpositum,past participle ofadponere,an alternative form ofapponere(“to putnear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈæd.pəˌzɪ.ʃən/

Noun

adposition(pluraladpositions)

1. (grammar)Anelementthatcombinessyntacticallywith aphraseand indicates how that phrase should beinterpretedin thesurroundingcontext;aprepositionorpostposition.
   • 2003,Mark C. Baker,Lexical Categories: Verbs, Nouns and Adjectives,Cambridge University Press,page303:

     Throughout this book, I have assumed thatadpositions(prepositions and postpositions) are not lexical categories, but rather functional categories.[…]While this view ofadpositionsis far from unprecedented, it runs contrary to the more standard generative treatment, championed by Jackendoff (1977: 31-33), in whichadpositionsconstitute a fourth lexical category, filling out the logical space of possibilities defined by the two binary-valued features$+\!/\!\!-\!\!{\mathsf {N}}$and$+\!/\!\!-\!\!{\mathsf {V}}$.

   • 2008,Amani Bohoussou, Stavros Skopeteas,Grammaticalization of spatialadpositionsin Nànáfwê,Elisabeth Verhoeven, Stavros Skopeteas, Yong-Min Shin, Yoko Nishina, Johannes Helmbrecht (editors),Studies on Grammaticalization,Walter de Gruyter (Mouton),page 77,

     It is well known in West African linguistics that languages in this broad sense displayadpositionsthat emerge out of these two sources, namely nouns and verbs.

   • 2010,Claude Hagège,Adpositions,Oxford University Press,page332:

     By establishingadpositionsas a constantly referred to but never really demonstrated language category, this book has provided a basis for the theory of the linguistic category.[…]Adpositionscould be considered a clear-cut category if one relied on syntax only, for one simple reason: the are specialized in function-marking.

Synonyms

• preposition(broad sense)

Hyponyms

• preposition(narrow sense)
• postposition
• circumposition

Derived terms

• adpositional
• adpositionhood

Translations

element combining with a phrase and indicating how to interpret the phrase in the context

• Armenian:կապ(hy)(kap)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Giới từ／Giới từ(zh)(jiècí),Tiền trí từ／Tiền trí từ(zh)(qiánzhìcí)(preposition),Hậu trí từ／Hậu trí từ(zh)(hòuzhìcí)(postposition)

• Dutch:adpositief
• Estonian:kaassõna
• Finnish:adpositio(fi),suhdesana(fi)
• French:adposition(fr)f
• Georgian:თანდებული(ka)(tandebuli)
• German:Adposition(de)f,Präposition(de)f(broad sense),Verhältniswort(de),Lagewort(de)
• Ingrian:apusana
• Japanese:Tiếp trí từ(せっちし, setchishi)
• Polish:przyimek(pl)m
• Portuguese:adposição(pt)f
• Romanian:adpozițief
• Russian:предло́г(ru)m(predlóg)(preposition),послело́г(ru)m(poslelóg)(postposition)
• Spanish:adposición(es)f

Further reading

• Preposition and postpositionon Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• List of English prepositionson Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Part of speechon Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Finnish

Noun

adposition

1. genitivesingularofadpositio