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Questions tagged [prepositions]

A class of words denoting temporal or spatial relations or other semantic roles. They are placed before the noun phrase they modify.

Examples for prepositions are the English words "from", "to", "of", "by".

A more general term (releasing the requirement that a preposition precedes the modified noun phrase) is adposition (see ).

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Given that Tok Pisin has only two prepositions, how does it express a range of relations?

A recent question discussing minimal sets of prepositions gained an answer that that Tok Pisin, the English-based creole used as national language and lingua franca of Papua New Guinea has only two prepositions: bilong (of) long (general use) So…
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What languages do without "to"

I'm trying to figure out what the meaning of to is. By that I mean, what is it's deeper grammatical structure. Knowing that it is a preposition (a pre-position), an infinitive marker, or an adverb isn't very helpful. That doesn't tell you as clearly…
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Minimal set of prepositions

How many and which prepositions do you need to express everything that prepositions can express. In "Alice goes under the line" and "Alice goes over the line" you could solve both cases with the same proposition if you add an adjective that…
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