appos: appositional modifier
An appositional modifier of a noun is a nominal immediately following the first noun that serves to define, modify, name, or describe that noun. It includes parenthesized examples, as well as defining abbreviations in one of these structures.
Abel-a , Soviets di ǃkhē-aob-a , ǂnoaba \n Abel-OBL , USSR POSS spy-OBL , defend
appos(Abel-a, ǃkhē-aob-a)
appos(Abel-OBL, spy-OBL)
Abel ( Soviets di ǃkhē-aob ) \n Abel ( USSR POSS spy )
appos(Abel-1, ǃkhē-aob)
appos(Abel-8, spy)
Soviet Union ( USSR )
appos(Union, USSR)
appos is intended to be used between two nominals. In general, modulo punctuation, the two halves of an apposition can be switched. For example, you could also say Soviets di ǃkhē-aoba, Abela, ǂnoaba “defending the Soviet spy, Abel”.
A special case of apposition in Khoekhoe is possession. In this case, instead of the regular possessor di possessed, the structure is possessed possessor di person-gender-number marker of possessed. The duplication of the possessed person-gender-number marker is analysed as an apposition of the possessed:
ǁgâus ôaǃnâs di s \n bureau.3F.SG investigation 's 3F.SG
appos(ǁgâus, s)
nmod:poss(s, ôaǃnâs)
case(ôaǃnâs, di)
appos(bureau.3F.SG, 3F.SG)
nmod:poss(3F.SG, investigation)
case(investigation, 's)
The same analysis is used for the appositive possession with personal pronoun:
khoegu ti gu \n person.3M.PL my 3M.PL
appos(khoegu, gu)
nmod:poss(ti, gu)
appos(person.3M.PL, 3M.PL)
nmod:poss(3M.PL, my)
See universal/appos for more details on various apposition related issues.
appos in other languages: [bej] [bg] [bm] [cop] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [et] [eu] [fi] [fr] [fro] [ga] [gsw] [hy] [it] [ka] [kk] [lt] [naq] [no] [pt] [qpm] [ro] [ru] [sl] [ssp] [sv] [swl] [tr] [tt] [u] [urj] [vi] [xcl] [yue] [zh]