From: R A Brown <ray@...>
> AFAIK understand by the term. Trask [1993] defines 'circumposition' thus:
> "A combination of a preposition and a postposition functioning together
> as a single adposition, such as Mandarin _dao4...li3 'into', illustrated
> in _Wo3 ba3 shui3 dao4 dao2 guon4 li3 I Acc water pour to can in 'I pour
> water into the can.'"
> [Actually Trask gives the Mandarin with the Pinyin diacritics to show
> tone, and not the numbers which I've given above]
Wo3 ba3 shui3 dao4 dao4 guan4 li3, idn't it [sic]?
Kou