How To Use Postposition In A Sentence
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I agree that some of the words used might have been simple postpositions like '*-pi', while the others fully-fledged declensional cases.
Grammar of Etrusco-Lemnian nouns
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A switch within the prepositional phrase should be ruled out because English has prepositions and Panjabi postpositions.
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Can anyone explain to me why "ago" is an adverb rather than a postposition?
On postpositions
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'For the good Larth' would be more competently translated into Etruscan as either *Larθus mlac (genitive of giving) or *Larθe-ri mlac (locative with postposition -ri 'for').
A little note on Etruscan adjectives and case agreement
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Paonese was of that type known as "polysynthetic," with root words taking on prefixes, affixes and postpositions to extend their meaning.
The Languages of Pao
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'For the good Larth' would be more competently translated into Etruscan as either *Larθus mlac (genitive of giving) or *Larθe-ri mlac (locative with postposition -ri 'for').
A little note on Etruscan adjectives and case agreement
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Ago is also sometimes called a postposition, because it's obligatory for it to follow the noun phrase.
On postpositions
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In a postpositional language, people would say 'the house in' and not 'in the house'.
On postpositions
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I would assert that "for" is the most precise value for -ri, that is, a postposition specifically identifying someone or something that benefits from a specified action.
Liber Linteus and religious formulae, part 1
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So I call it a directive case and I identify tra not as an "ablative postposition" as some claim but as a directive postposition borrowed from an Italic language cf.
Ipa ama hen
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[2] Bomhard/Kerns, The Nostratic macrofamily: A study in distant linguistic relationship (1994), p.161 (see link): Thus, in a consistent SOV language, an attributive adjective or a genitive precedes its 'head' noun, an adverb precedes its adjective or verb, a noun precedes its case ending or postposition, [...]
Etruscan syntactic inversion
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The former is attributive (with benefactive nuance here), and the latter is directive (indicating motion towards) with the addition of a postposition -tra which itself is declined.
Liber Linteus and religious formulae, part 2
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Any future contributions to this theme should focus on the notion of postposition, please.
On postpositions
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It's quite different from English, too, in that it puts the verb at the end of the sentence and uses postpositions instead of prepositions.
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From what I see the above shows a variously-declined derivative noun *hanθa meaning "front" which in turn can be based on a postpositional particle han "before, in front of" hen [CPer A.v, A.xxiv]; ce-hen [TLE 619] "this here" .
Archive 2007-06-01
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The postposition 'long', too, is adverbial to me: "all day/night/week/month long" strikes me as an adverb of duration rather than a preposition...
On postpositions
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It's quite different from English, too, in that it puts the verb at the end of the sentence and uses postpositions instead of prepositions.
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Chinese is monosyllabic, Japanese is polysyllabic; Japanese verbs, adjectives and adverbs inflect, whereas they don't in Chinese; and Japanese has a system of postpositions that Chinese doesn't.
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Bayndor: "Indeed it is hard to imagine a language with just 4 declensional cases and without pre- or postpositions in the same time.
Grammar of Etrusco-Lemnian nouns
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Indeed it is hard to imagine a language with just 4 declensional cases and without pre- or postpositions in the same time.
Grammar of Etrusco-Lemnian nouns
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Chinese is monosyllabic, Japanese is polysyllabic; Japanese verbs, adjectives and adverbs inflect, whereas they don't in Chinese; and Japanese has a system of postpositions that Chinese doesn't.
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This actuality of things is emphasized by the postposition of the color adjective, in accordance with normal, non-poetic usage: it excludes any metaphorical interpretation.
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Etruscan is an agglutinative language however and so one sometimes finds more case endings attached to postpositions which are already attached to case endings!
Grammar of Etrusco-Lemnian nouns
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It's quite different from English, too, in that it puts the verb at the end of the sentence and uses postpositions instead of prepositions.
