Prepositional Phrase (definition)
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The syntactic element that consists of a preposition (which expresses spatial relation or indicates syntactic functions or semantic roles) and a noun phrase complement.
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- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preposition_and_postposition
- http://suppes-corpus.stanford.edu/article.html?id=403
References
- Carnie, A. (2013) Syntax: A Generative Introduction. 3rd Edition. Wiley Blackwell.
- Crystal, D. (2008) Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. 6th Edition. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Matthews, P. H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
