Re: Prepositional adjectives?

Marcos Franco wrote:

>>But 'preposition' has always seemed to me an unsatisfactory word - it
>>merely refers to the position of the word, not its function.
>
>I agree. And even if they were named by its position, I think
>"preposition" would be an incorrect name for them, as it seems to mean
>a kind of position, not a word. Probably "preparticle" would be
>better. But if I was allowed to rename prepositions, I probably would
>call them "nominal adverbs" as they function like adverbs which modify
>nouns (or equivalent), as opposite to the other adverbs.
Every now and then I hear adpositions referred to as "relationals".
This seems like a reasonable term to me, since adpositions typically
denote relations between two or more objects or events.

Matt.

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