AdpType: adposition type
| Values: | Ambi | Comadp | Prep | Post |
Western Armenian has prepositions, postpositions, and ambipositions, but no circumpositions.
Ambi: ambiposition
Examples
- փոխանակ/p’oxanak “instead of”, շնորհիւ/šnorhiw “thanks to, by virtue of”, հանդէպ/handēp “toward”, համեմատ/hamemat “compared to”
Prep: preposition
Examples
- ի/i “for the sake of”, առ/aṙ “to, towords, at, by”, յանուն/yanown “for the sake of”, մինչեւ/minčew “till”
Post: postposition
Examples
- վրայ/vray “on”, քով/k’ov “at”, հետ/het “with”, դէմ/dēm “against”, մօտ/mòt “at”, մէջ/mēǰ “in”, զատ/zat “except”
Comadp: dependent part of compound adposition
This value marks the dependent first or second 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 սէր/i sēr “for the love of”, ի պատիւ/i patiw “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 դէմ յանդիման/dēm yandiman “in front of, face to face”.
Examples
- ի հեճուկս/i heč̣owks “to spite, despite”
AdpType in other languages: [axm] [cs] [hy] [hyw] [ka] [oge] [pal] [u] [xmf]