prepositional
English
Etymology
From LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#PREPOSITIONAL praepositiō (“a setting before, a preposition”)Category:English undefined derivations#PREPOSITIONAL, a calque of Ancient GreekCategory:English terms derived from Ancient Greek#PREPOSITIONAL πρόθεσις (próthesis, “a setting before, preposition (grammar)”) + -alCategory:English terms suffixed with -al#PREPOSITIONAL.
Pronunciation
Adjective
prepositional (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#PREPOSITIONALCategory:English adjectives#PREPOSITIONALCategory:English uncomparable adjectives#PREPOSITIONALCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PREPOSITIONALCategory:Pages with entries#PREPOSITIONALCategory:Pages with 1 entry#PREPOSITIONAL
- Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preposition.
- 1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 7, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 364:
- Although we have concentrated on Prepositions which take zero Complements, NP Complements, or clausal Complements in our discussion above, there seems no reason in principle to exclude the possibility of Prepositions taking prepositional Complements. And it may well be that items such as those italicised below are Prepositions which subcategorise a PP Complement headed by of:Category:English terms with quotations#PREPOSITIONAL
(80) (a) He stayed at home because [of the strike]
(80) (b) He fell out [of the window]
(80) (c) Few people outside [of the immediate family] know
(80) (d) %It fell off [of the table] (dialectal)
- (grammarCategory:en:Grammar#PREPOSITIONAL) Of the prepositional case.
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Noun
prepositional (plural prepositionals)Category:English lemmas#PREPOSITIONALCategory:English nouns#PREPOSITIONALCategory:English countable nouns#PREPOSITIONALCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PREPOSITIONALCategory:Pages with entries#PREPOSITIONALCategory:Pages with 1 entry#PREPOSITIONAL