adposition

== English == === Etymology === From ad- +‎ position, from Latin adpositio, from adpositum, past participle of adponere, an alternative form of apponere (“to put near”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˌædpəˈzɪʃən/ Rhymes: -ɪʃən Hyphenation: ad‧po‧si‧tion === Noun === adposition (plural adpositions) (grammar) An element that combines syntactically with a phrase and indicates how that phrase should be interpreted in the surrounding context; a preposition or postposition. 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. ==== Synonyms ==== preposition (broad sense) ==== Hyponyms ==== preposition (narrow sense) postposition circumposition ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === Preposition and postposition on Wikipedia.Wikipedia List of English prepositions on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Part of speech on Wikipedia.Wikipedia == Finnish == === Noun === adposition genitive singular of adpositio