ADP: adposition
Definition
Khoekhoe mostly have postpositions, with some preposition borrowed from Afrikaans. They occur after (postposition) or before (preposition) a complement composed of a noun, a pronoun, a larger noun phrase, 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.
Some postpositions in Khoekhoe take the form of fixed multiword expressions, e.g. ams ai “near”, soas_ǃnâ “instead of”. The component words are then still tagged according to their basic use (ams is NOUN, ai is ADP etc.) and their status as multiword expressions are accounted for in the syntactic annotation.
Examples
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ǃnâ “in”
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ǃoa “to”
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ǃoagu “opposite”
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rondom “around” (preposition borrowed from Afrikaans)
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] [xcl] [yue] [zh]