An adpositional phrase, in linguistics, is a syntactic category that includes prepositional phrases, postpositional phrases, and circumpositional phrases. |
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Many languages have both types, as well as circumpositional phrases. |
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The analysis of circumpositional phrases is not so clear, since it is not obvious which of the two adpositions should be viewed as the head of the phrase. |
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Circumpositional phrases involve both a preposition and a postposition, whereby the complement appears between the two. |
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