Comparative Concept: circumposition (str)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
circumposition (str)
Typ | strategy |
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Alias(se) | circumposition |
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Definition
an adposition which occurs as two morphemes, one before and one after the modifier or argument - head. Example: in Pashto ter maktaba poori 'as far as the school', the meaning 'as far as' is expressed by the combination of ter preceding maktaba 'school' and poori following it. (Section 4.3)