Re: THEORY: Adpositional Heads
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 10, 2003, 19:01 |
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Rob Haden wrote:
> Good point. However, I wonder if one could re-interpret adpositional
> phrases as noun phrases?
I suppose so, but that's rather overlooking the importance of
adpositions, and the fact that adpositions tend to pattern with other
heads, i.e., if a language is OV, adjectives before nouns, etc., than
adpositions will most likely be postpositions, whereas if a language is
VO, adjectives after nouns, etc., then adpositions will most likely be
prepositions.
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