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an adposition is an element that... An adposition combines syntactically with exactly one... an adposition need have no complement... An adposition establishes the grammatical relationship that links its complement phrase to another word or phrase in... An adposition determines certain grammatical properties of its complement... and during the transitional stages the adposition acts in some ways like a single word... The surface position of an adposition with respect to its complement allows us to define the following subclasses... It is usually straightforward to say whether an adposition precedes or follows its complement... the complement of the adposition is missing altogether... Another logical possibility is for the adposition to appear on... is an adposition between constituents of a complex complement... is a term sometimes used for an adposition that can function as either a preposition or a postposition... The selection of the correct adposition in these cases is a matter of syntactic well... adposition usually involves motion along a... adposition normally does not involve movement... When a static adposition combines with a motion verb... projective static adposition is one whose meaning can be determined by inspecting the meaning of its complement and... Adpositional languages typically single out a particular adposition for the following special functions... One adposition can usually combine with two coordinated complements... but an adposition can be separated from the noun by other words... but an adposition only appears once...

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