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adposition

class of words used to express spatial or temporal relations or mark various semantic roles
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adposition

Summary

adposition is a part of speech[1]. adposition has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]

Key Facts

  • adposition's instance of is recorded as part of speech[3].
  • adposition is a type of function word[4].
  • adposition's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Adpositions[5].
  • adposition's represents is recorded as relation[6].
  • adposition's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 8[7].
  • adposition's used by is recorded as Universal Dependencies[8].
  • adposition's equivalent class is recorded as http://www.lexinfo.net/ontology/3.0/lexinfo#Adposition[9].
  • adposition's equivalent class is recorded as http://www.lexinfo.net/ontology/2.0/lexinfo#Adposition[10].
  • adposition's equivalent class is recorded as http://purl.org/linguistics/gold/Adposition[11].
  • adposition's different from is recorded as proposition[12].
  • adposition's different from is recorded as preposition[13].
  • adposition's different from is recorded as postposition[14].
  • adposition's exact match is recorded as http://www.lexinfo.net/ontology/3.0/lexinfo#adposition[15].
  • adposition's exact match is recorded as http://www.lexinfo.net/ontology/2.0/lexinfo#adposition[16].
  • adposition's exact match is recorded as http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#Adposition[17].

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Definition and Type

adposition's instance of is recorded as part of speech[3]. adposition is a type of function word[4].

Use and Application

adposition's used by is recorded as Universal Dependencies[8].

Why It Matters

adposition has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2] adposition is known by 22 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago · Oscgramcam · 2026-07-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → function word
    Subclass of → —
    Different from → proposition, preposition, postposition
    Instance of → part of speech
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P4342]]: adposisjon"
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