prepositions Flashcards
1
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adpositions
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pre/postpositions
2
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affixes
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represent space in language by a word part not a whole word
3
Q
how many prepositions are thought to be in english
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150
4
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demonstrative pronouns
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function as pointing words this and these, that ant those use the position of the speaker as reference point
5
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locatives
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adverbs (modifer) that funtion as pointing words
use the position of objects relative to the speaker
here, there, where
6
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syntactic function
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related to the grammatical rules of forming a prepostional phrase withing a sentence (these are internal to language)
7
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semantic function
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related to how prepostions denote spatial, temporal, and causal relations in the world (this pertains to how they hook onto our ideas of external reality)
