Questions tagged [prepositions]
A class of words denoting temporal or spatial relations or other semantic roles. They are placed before the noun phrase they modify.
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How does Tok Pisin get by with just a few prepositions?
I know the language only has 'two' prepositions (though there seems to be a some dispute to that). Regardless, the two prepositions 'long' and 'bilong' seem to be quite broad in definition.
I do ...
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Do there exist languages with wh-prepositions?
I can imagine a language where instead of "what did you put a toy on?" one says something like "whon did you put a toy?". Do such languages exist?
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Is the word "here" a preposition?
In a related question, I got entangled in a debate whether the word "here" (which I would classify readily as an adverb) is in reality a preposition. I am curious which modern analyses find ...
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Term for the modified part of a prepositional complement
A prepositional complement is the noun phrase that follows a preposition. So, given sentences like
John saw the woman with an umbrella.
and
John saw the moon with a telescope.
The ...
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Case assignment with prepositions
Consider these examples:
'I am happy with my parents'
my parents gets assigned Case by 'with'.
*'I am proud with my parents'
My question is as follows:
What is the reasoning for 2 being ...
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Given that Tok Pisin has only two prepositions, how does it express a range of relations? [duplicate]
A recent question discussing minimal sets of prepositions gained an answer that that Tok Pisin, the English-based creole used as national language and lingua franca of Papua New Guinea has only two ...
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Difference between particle and adverb in English
Some dictionaries such as Cambridge Online Dictionary defines the word particle as
a word or a part of a word that has a grammatical purpose but often has little or no meaning: In the sentence "I ...
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