postpositions

As a copout, I explain that it’s my bilingual upbringing (Japanese probably was my first language), and if you are familiar with Japanese in anyway, you know that the Japanese use of participles, specifically "postpositions," is at the very least perplexing.

This Is Dedicated to . . . 2006

As a copout, I explain that it’s my bilingual upbringing (Japanese probably was my first language), and if you are familiar with Japanese in anyway, you know that the Japanese use of participles, specifically "postpositions," is at the very least perplexing.

November 2006 2006

At any rate, in Japanese, particles (actually postpositions, but functionally identical to prepositions, Japanese being verb-final and all that) do clearly play the role of case markers.

Book Review: “Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue” « Motivated Grammar 2010

"I agree that some of the words used might have been simple postpositions like '*-pi'"

Grammar of Etrusco-Lemnian nouns 2010

Etruscan is an agglutinative language however and so one sometimes finds more case endings attached to postpositions which are already attached to case endings!

Grammar of Etrusco-Lemnian nouns 2010

Indeed it is hard to imagine a language with just 4 declensional cases and without pre- or postpositions in the same time.

Grammar of Etrusco-Lemnian nouns 2010

I agree that some of the words used might have been simple postpositions like '*-pi', while the others fully-fledged declensional cases.

Grammar of Etrusco-Lemnian nouns 2010

Bayndor: "Indeed it is hard to imagine a language with just 4 declensional cases and without pre- or postpositions in the same time."

Grammar of Etrusco-Lemnian nouns 2010

Etruscan is no different and, as a typical SOV language, it prefers postpositions.

Grammar of Etrusco-Lemnian nouns 2010

English plainly doesn't have postpositions in the strict sense, i.e. an item which governs a noun phrase and obligatorily occurs after the noun phrase.

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