adposition

Etymology
, from, from , past participle of , an alternative form of.

Noun

 * 1)  An element that combines syntactically with a phrase and indicates how that phrase should be interpreted in the surrounding context; a preposition or postposition.
 * 2) * 2008, Amani Bohoussou, Stavros Skopeteas, Grammaticalization of spatial adpositions in 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 display adpositions that emerge out of these two sources, namely nouns and verbs.
 * It is well known in West African linguistics that languages in this broad sense display adpositions that emerge out of these two sources, namely nouns and verbs.

Synonyms

 * (broad sense)

Hyponyms

 * (narrow sense)

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Dutch: adpositie
 * Estonian: kaassõna
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:, (broad sense), ,
 * Ingrian: apusana
 * Japanese: 接置詞
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: adpoziție
 * Russian: ,