ADP: adposition
Definition
Adposition is a cover term for prepositions and postpositions. Adpositions belong to a closed set of items that occur before (preposition) or after (postposition) a complement composed of a noun phrase, noun, pronoun, or clause that functions as a noun phrase, and that form a single structure with the complement to express its grammatical and semantic relation to another unit within a clause.
Certain multiword expressions, such as ενάντια σε, γύρω από are adpositions. The component words are tagged according to their basic use (ενάντια is an ADV, από is an ADP, etc.), the two words are connected with the dependency relation “fixed” and the first word is used as a conventional “head”.
από is sometimes used not as a preposition but rather to ensure distributive readings; in these cases it is is assigned the PoS DET: Για τις θέσεις 1 και 2 υπήρξε από ένας υποψήφιος for the positions 1 and 2 existed from one.NOM candidate.NOM `there was a different candidate for each of the positions 1 and 2’
Examples
- σε, από, με, για, ως, εκ/εξ / se, apo, me, gia, os, ek/ex “to, from, with, for, up to/like, from”
- (μέσα σε) μέσα:ADV σε:ADP, (ενάντια σε) ενάντια:ADV σε:AD {μετά, εντός}: ADP + ΝΟUN[Case=Gen], e .g., μετά ληστείας, Lit. with robbery, εντός δευτερολέπτων “in seconds”, and in all other environments μετά, εντός are tagged ADV
References
Τζάρτζανος, Αχιλλέας, 2002. Νεοελληνική Σύνταξις της Κοινής Δημοτικής. Αθήνα: Εκδόσεις Κυριακίδη. σελ. 225. https://www.greek-language.gr/greekLang/modern_greek/tools/lexica/triantafyllides/
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]