AdpType: adposition type
| Values: | Ambi | Comadp | Prep | Post |
Armenian has prepositions, postpositions and ambipositions, but no circumpositions.
Ambi: ambiposition
Examples
- փոխանակ/p’oxanak “instead of”, շնորհիվ/šnorhiv “thanks to, by virtue of”, բացի/bac’i “besides, except”
Prep: preposition
Examples
- ի/i “for the sake of”, առ/aṙ “to, towords, at, by”, ըստ/ëst “according to”, դեպի/depi “to”, մինչև/minčew “till”, առանց/aṙanc’ “without”, հօգուտ/hògowt “in favour of”, հանձին/hanjin “in person of”, հանուն/hanown “for the sake of”
Post: postposition
Examples
- համար/hamar “for”, հանդերձ/handerj “together with”, պես/pes “as”, հետ/het “with”, դեմ/dem “against”, մոտ/mot “at”, վրա/vra “on”, մեջ/meǰ “in”, զատ/zat “except”
Comadp: dependent part of a compound adposition
This value marks the dependent part of a compound adposition. Such words cannot occur independently as adpositions. Not all compound adpositions contain words marked Comadp. Many compound prepositions consist of a preposition followed by a noun (e.g. ի սեր/i ser “for the love of”, ի պատիվ/i pativ “in honor of” ), where the noun retains its nominal status. Some compound adpositions consist of two tokens, where the first is an adposition, and the second is historically derived from another part of speech but has become lexicalized as a postposition, as in դեմ հանդիման/dem handiman “in front of, face to face”.
Examples
- ի հեճուկս/i heč̣owks “to spite”, ի փառս/i p’aṙs “in praise of”
AdpType in other languages: [axm] [cs] [hy] [hyw] [ka] [oge] [pal] [u] [xmf]