ADP: adposition
Definition
Turkish only has postpositions. They occur after a complement noun phrase (or a nominal subordinate clause) and they form a single structure with the complement to express its grammatical and semantic relation to another unit within a clause.
A number of postpositions in Turkish are complex,
derived from a closed set of nouns (see Göksel & Kerslake 2005, ch.17).
Examples include, alt-ın-da “below”, arka-sı-nda “behind”, konu-su-nda “about”.
We also mark these expressions as ADP when they are used as postpositions
(TODO: this requires discussion).
Examples
- Ali’ye rağmen “despite Ali”
- Ali için “for Ali”
- Kalabalığın arasında “between/within the crowd”
- Ali’nin dışında “except Ali”
References
Aslı Göksel and Celia Kerslake. Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar. London: Routledge, 2005.
ADP in other languages: [bej] [bg] [bm] [cs] [cy] [da] [el] [en] [es] [et] [fi] [fro] [fr] [ga] [gn] [grc] [gub] [hu] [hy] [it] [ja] [ka] [kk] [kpv] [ky] [myv] [no] [pcm] [pt] [qpm] [ru] [sl] [sv] [tpn] [tr] [tt] [uk] [u] [urj] [yue] [zh]