- Definition
An adposition is a °flag that is not an °affix.
- Comments
That adpositions and case affixes are functionally similar has long been recognized, but it was only after Haspelmath (2005) that the term "flag" (which was coined in the 1980s) gained ground
- Croft's comparative concept
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adposition (STR):
adposition (STR) = a flag which occurs as an independent word, in contrast to a case affix. Adpositions are distinguished by position: preposition, postposition, and circumposition. (Section 4.3)
- Wikipedia
- adposition
- SIL Glossary
- adposition
- Quotation
- "Adpositions ... may be defined as grammatical tools which mark the relationship between two parts of a sentence: one is the element which an adposition governs. It is traditionally called its complement and is mostly represented by a noun or noun-like word or phrase. It will be called here the governed term. The other part is an entity which either functions as the predicate of this sentence, or is a non-predicative noun. Adpositions mark, therefore, the fact that, from the syntactic point of view, their governed term depends on a head." (Hagège 2010: 1)
- Sources
- Haspelmath 2005; Hagège 2010