• for). The most common adpositions are prepositions (those which precede their complement) and postpositions (those which follow their complement). An...
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    called a postposition to distinguish it from more prototypical prepositions, whose complements follow them. Some grammars classify prepositions and postpositions...
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  • Preposition stranding or p-stranding is the syntactic construction in which a so-called stranded, hanging or dangling preposition occurs somewhere other...
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  • following are postpositions, prepositions whose complements typically precede them. Note that some grammars classify prepositions and postpositions as different...
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  • As languages can make use of postpositions rather than prepositions, so do some languages have inflected postpositions. Bororo, an indigenous language...
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    these function words after their objects, which would be postpositions. Spanish prepositions can be classified as either "simple", consisting of a single...
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    ending in a vowel don't. Whereas English features prepositions, Bengali typically uses postpositions. That is, while these modifying words occur before...
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  • prepositions and postpositions in Latvian grammar. The lists below are organized according to the case of the noun phrase following the preposition....
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  • phrases, and circumpositional phrases. Adpositional phrases contain an adposition (preposition, postposition, or circumposition) as head and usually a...
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  • subject and any of its objects, which can include but are not limited to direct objects, indirect objects, and arguments of adpositions (prepositions or postpositions);...
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