ADP: adposition
Definition
Adposition is a cover term for prepositions and postpositions. Adpositions belong to a closed set of items that occur before (preposition) or after (postposition) a complement composed of a noun phrase, noun, pronoun, or clause that functions as a noun phrase, and that form a single structure with the complement to express its grammatical and semantic relation to another unit within a clause.
In many languages, adpositions can take the form of fixed multiword
expressions, such as in spite of, because of, thanks to. The
component words are then still tagged according to their basic use
(in is ADP, spite is NOUN, etc.) and their status as
multiword expressions are accounted for in the syntactic annotation.
Note that in Germanic languages, some prepositions may also function
as verbal particles, as in give in or hold on. They
are still tagged ADP and not PART.
Examples
- in
- to
- during
References
ADP in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]