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  • Adpositional case
  • Grammatical case

    prepositional case (abbreviated prep) and the postpositional case (abbreviated post) - generalised as adpositional cases - are grammatical cases that respectively

    Adpositional case

    Adpositional_case

  • Adpositional phrase
  • Phrase modifying a lexical item

    adpositional phrase is a syntactic category that includes prepositional phrases, postpositional phrases, and circumpositional phrases. Adpositional phrases

    Adpositional phrase

    Adpositional_phrase

  • Grammatical case
  • Categorization of nouns and modifiers by function

    inflected for case; the position of a noun in the sentence expresses its case. Adpositional: Nouns are accompanied by words that mark case. With a few exceptions

    Grammatical case

    Grammatical_case

  • Jingulu language
  • Endangered Mirndi language spoken in Australia

    for other nominals) and the dative case (/-rna/). Semantic/adpositional case markings include the instrumental case to mark inanimate subjects of transitive

    Jingulu language

    Jingulu_language

  • Argobba language
  • Semitic language spoken in northeastern Ethiopia

    used similarly to the preposition tɜ-, it is also used when forming adpositional phrases that show locality and directionality. In addition to that, it

    Argobba language

    Argobba_language

  • Vafsi dialect
  • Iranian language spoken in the Vafs village

    efteraqi dær Vafsi dær čaharčub-e næzæri-e behinegi [Differential Adpositional Case Marking in Vafsi within the OT Framework].’ In Language Related Research

    Vafsi dialect

    Vafsi_dialect

  • Comitative case
  • Grammatical case denoting accompaniment

    prepositions, postpositions and circumpositions. Examples of languages that use adpositional constructions to express comitative relations are French, which uses

    Comitative case

    Comitative_case

  • Adposition
  • Word class or 'part of speech'

    phrase formed by an adposition together with its complement is called an adpositional phrase (or prepositional phrase, postpositional phrase, etc.). Such a

    Adposition

    Adposition

  • Inflection
  • Process of word formation, by alteration to express grammatical categories

    Japanese[citation needed]). In dependent-marking languages, nouns in adpositional (prepositional or postpositional) phrases can carry inflectional morphemes

    Inflection

    Inflection

    Inflection

  • Linguistic typology
  • Branch of linguistics

    before object) like English tend to have prepositions as their main adpositional type. Several OV/VO correlations have been uncovered. Several processing

    Linguistic typology

    Linguistic_typology

  • Latin indirect speech
  • Latin Speech

    indirect question is expected to be an oblique or adpositional case, it is treated like an object case (and the preposition dropped): duae causae sunt cūr

    Latin indirect speech

    Latin_indirect_speech

  • Tamasheq language
  • Tuareg Berber macro-language of North Africa

    and other non-verb stems, accent is lexically determined. This is not the case for verbs. According to the rule called "default accentuation", the accent

    Tamasheq language

    Tamasheq_language

  • Traditional grammar
  • Framework for the description of the structure of a language

    anywhere in a sentence. Adpositional phrases can add to or modify the meaning of nouns, verbs, or adjectives. An adpositional phrase is a phrase that

    Traditional grammar

    Traditional_grammar

  • Head-directionality parameter
  • Proposed parameter in linguistics

    for example, an adverbial phrase or adpositional phrase (PP). Adpositional Phrase: the head of an adpositional phrase (PP) is an adposition. Such phrases

    Head-directionality parameter

    Head-directionality_parameter

  • Pashto grammar
  • Grammar of the Pashto language

    place, manner, and degree. These adverbs can act alone or as part of an adpositional phrase. Acting alone: ex: مخکښې راغله mə́xkx̌e before:ADV rā́ğla come:AOR:PST:3:SG:F

    Pashto grammar

    Pashto grammar

    Pashto_grammar

  • Index of linguistics articles
  • - Adpositional phrase - Adverb - Adverbial - Adverbial phrase - Affix - Affricate consonant - Agglutination - Agglutinative language - Allative case -

    Index of linguistics articles

    Index_of_linguistics_articles

  • Majhi language
  • Indo-Aryan language of Nepal

    the example below, the noun phrase also appears with a specific case (the genitive case) with this postposition.:29 kaṭh-kərə wood-GEN lagi for kaṭh-kərə

    Majhi language

    Majhi language

    Majhi_language

  • Infinitive
  • Grammatical form

    from gerunds (verbal nouns) in that they do not inflect for case or occur in adpositional phrases. Instead, infinitives often originate in earlier inflectional

    Infinitive

    Infinitive

  • Passive voice
  • Grammatical construction

    that is not a core argument. It is marked by a non-core case or becomes part of an adpositional phrase, etc. This can be omitted, but there is always the

    Passive voice

    Passive_voice

  • Word order
  • Order of syntactic constituents

    order of constituents in a clause. Normally, the noun phrase and the adpositional phrase are investigated. Within the noun phrase, one investigates whether

    Word order

    Word order

    Word_order

  • Coverb
  • Grammatical construct resembling a verb

    fuses with a verb to a coverb composite. Korean has a higher variety of adpositional coverbs. The following examples demonstrate the usage of coverbs in Standard

    Coverb

    Coverb

  • Talysh language
  • Northwestern Iranian language spoken in Northern Iran and Southern Azerbaijan

    function, ergative case takes the form of -ni after vowel-final stems); nominal modifier in a noun phrase; the nominal element in adpositional phrases with

    Talysh language

    Talysh language

    Talysh_language

  • Hangul
  • Native alphabet of the Korean language

    separated by a space. The first is "학교" (lit. 'school') with an attached adpositional particle "에". The second is "간다", a conjugated verb. North Korean punctuation

    Hangul

    Hangul

    Hangul

  • Syntax
  • System responsible for combining morphemes into complex structures

    Usage List of syntactic phenomena Adjective Adjective phrase Adjunct Adpositional phrase Adverb Antecedent Appositive Argument Article Aspect Attributive

    Syntax

    Syntax

  • Theta role
  • Phrase in linguistics

    associated with the theta role, such as a determiner phrase (DP) or adpositional phrase (PP). This mingles theta-theory with the notion of subcategorization

    Theta role

    Theta_role

  • Cappadocian Greek
  • Dialect of Modern Greek

    Cappadocian Greek. Diachronica 33(1), 31–66. Karatsareas, Petros. 2016b. The adpositional cycle in Asia Minor Greek: a tale of multiple causation. Journal of Greek

    Cappadocian Greek

    Cappadocian Greek

    Cappadocian_Greek

  • Dutch grammar
  • Grammar of the Dutch language

    which they belong. rode appels – red apples In contrast to English, adpositional phrases come in the order time–manner–place, again as in German, so that

    Dutch grammar

    Dutch_grammar

  • Proto-Siouan language
  • Common ancestor of the Siouan languages

    ISBN 978-90-279-3443-7. Coen, Noah Michael (2021). "(Para-)Adpositional Morphosyntax in Siouan: A Case Study of Lakhota-Dakota-Nakota, Catawba, and Crow". In

    Proto-Siouan language

    Proto-Siouan_language

  • Preposition stranding
  • Syntactical occurrence

    Kenesei, Istvan; Broekhuis, Hans (2015). Syntax of Dutch: adpositions and adpositional phrases. Amsterdam University Press. pp. 294ff. ISBN 978-9048522255.

    Preposition stranding

    Preposition_stranding

  • Subject–object–verb word order
  • Feature of language

    to exhibit a tendency towards using a time–manner–place ordering of adpositional phrases. In linguistic typology, one can usefully distinguish two types

    Subject–object–verb word order

    Subject–object–verb_word_order

  • Pali
  • Indo-European language native to the Indian subcontinent

    postposed) are rare, but adverbs, declined nouns and gerunds may be used adpositionally. Some frequent conjunctions such as ca ('and'), va ('or') are added

    Pali

    Pali

  • Niger–Congo languages
  • Large language family of Sub-Saharan Africa

    characteristics. Although verbs follow their direct objects, oblique adpositional phrases (like "in the house", "with timber") typically come after the

    Niger–Congo languages

    Niger–Congo languages

    Niger–Congo_languages

  • Hangul orthography
  • Writing practices of the Korean alphabet

    separated by a space. The first is "학교" (lit. 'school') with an attached adpositional particle "에". The second is "간다", a conjugated verb. North Korean punctuation

    Hangul orthography

    Hangul_orthography

  • Verb-initial word order
  • Linguistic classification

    tendencies: Adjective comes before standard of comparison Verb comes before adpositional phrase Adpositions come before the noun phrase (i.e. they are prepositions)

    Verb-initial word order

    Verb-initial_word_order

  • Tlahuitoltepec Mixe
  • Mixe language of Oaxaca, Mexico

    adposition Standard of comparison, comparison mark and adjective Verb and adpositional phrases Verb and non-argument noun phrases Ayutla Mixe presents characteristics

    Tlahuitoltepec Mixe

    Tlahuitoltepec_Mixe

  • Cora language
  • Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Cora people of northern Mexico and western USA

    inflecting verbs with many affixes and clitics. There are a number of adpositional clitics that can also be used as relational nouns. Different types of

    Cora language

    Cora language

    Cora_language

  • Oneida language
  • Iroquoian language of Canada and the US

    optative) fill the role of verb tense; non-modal prefixes are often adpositional. Oneida is head-marking, and designates person and number in this way

    Oneida language

    Oneida_language

  • Gaddang people
  • Indigenous people of the Philippines

    agglutinative, and is characterized by a dearth of positional/directional adpositional adjunct words. Temporal references are usually accomplished using context

    Gaddang people

    Gaddang people

    Gaddang_people

  • Henk van Riemsdijk
  • Dutch linguist (born 1948)

    later work he showed that, just like nominal and verbal projections, the adpositional projection can contain functional material, specifically so-called functional

    Henk van Riemsdijk

    Henk_van_Riemsdijk

  • A-Hmao language
  • Hmongic language spoken in China

    being overtly inflected. Tense, aspect, mood, person, number, gender, and case are indicated lexically. Single-morpheme word Monosyllable single-morpheme

    A-Hmao language

    A-Hmao_language

  • Mekéns language
  • Endangered Tupian language of Brazil

    subsequent chapter which includes phrasal categories, as well as noun, verb, adpositional, and adverb phrases. The final chapter of her dissertation focuses on

    Mekéns language

    Mekéns_language

  • Menya language
  • Language

    intensifier –näŋä), adpositional phrases, quantifiers, demonstratives, possessives, personalizing clitics, and ellipses. Menya has multiple case-marking clitics

    Menya language

    Menya_language

  • Baluan-Pam language
  • Oceanic language of Manus Province, Papua New Guinea

    number and first, second and third person, but not gender. The range of adpositional forms is limited, since most spatial relations are expressed either by

    Baluan-Pam language

    Baluan-Pam language

    Baluan-Pam_language

  • Western Tlacolula Valley Zapotec
  • Zapotec language of Oaxaca, Mexico

    the head-initial order of syntactic phrases including noun phrases, adpositional phrases, and quantifier phrases. A few varieties of Zapotec have Passive

    Western Tlacolula Valley Zapotec

    Western_Tlacolula_Valley_Zapotec

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  • Lowen
  • Surname or Lastname

    English

    Lowen

    English : variant of Lewin 1.This name is also found in the Netherlands, and in Sweden as Löwen, Löwén, Lövén, in both cases presumably derived from the German surname Löwe (see Loewe), although the Swedish forms could equally be ornamental names from löv ‘leaf’.

    Lowen

  • Manton
  • Surname or Lastname

    English

    Manton

    English : habitational name from any of the various places so called, for example in Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, and Wiltshire. For the most part the first element is either Old English (ge)mǣne ‘common’, ‘shared’ (see Manley, Manship), or the Old English byname Mann(a) (see Mann). However, in the case of Manton in Lincolnshire the early forms show clearly that it was Old English m(e)alm ‘sand’, ‘chalk’, with reference to the poor soil of the region. The second element is in each case Old English tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.Irish (Cork) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Manntáin ‘descendant of Manntán’, a personal name derived from a diminutive of manntach ‘toothless’.

    Manton

  • Meadow
  • Surname or Lastname

    English

    Meadow

    English : topographic name for someone who lived by a meadow. Compare Mead. The form meadow derives from mǣdwe, the dative case of Old English mǣd.

    Meadow

  • Mann
  • Surname or Lastname

    English, German, Dutch (De Mann), and Jewish (Ashkenazic)

    Mann

    English, German, Dutch (De Mann), and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname for a fierce or strong man, or for a man contrasted with a boy, from Middle English, Middle High German, Middle Dutch man. In some cases it may have arisen as an occupational name for a servant, from the medieval use of the term to describe a person of inferior social status. The Jewish surname can be ornamental.English and German : from a Germanic personal name, found in Old English as Manna. This originated either as a byname or else as a short form of a compound name containing this element, such as Hermann.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from the Yiddish male personal name Man (cognate with 1).Indian (Panjab) : Hindu (Jat) and Sikh name of unknown meaning.

    Mann

  • Marley
  • Surname or Lastname

    English

    Marley

    English : habitational name from any of the various places so called, for example in Devon, Kent, and West Yorkshire. According to Ekwall, the first element of these place names is respectively Old English (ge)mǣre ‘boundary’, myrig ‘pleasant’, and mearð ‘(pine) marten’. The second element in each case is Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’. This surname was taken to Ireland by a Northumbrian family who settled there in the 17th century.

    Marley

  • Mangold
  • Surname or Lastname

    English

    Mangold

    English : of uncertain origin. Reaney gives it as a variant of Mangnall, which he derives from Old French mangonelle, a war engine for throwing stones. It may alternatively be identical in origin with the German name in 2 below, but there is no evidence of its introduction to Britain as a personal name by the Normans, which is normally the case for English surnames derived from Continental Germanic personal names.German and French : from a Germanic personal name Managwald, composed of the elements manag ‘much’ + wald ‘rule’.

    Mangold

  • Miles
  • Surname or Lastname

    English (of Norman origin)

    Miles

    English (of Norman origin) : via Old French from the Germanic personal name Milo, of unknown etymology. The name was introduced to England by the Normans in the form Miles (oblique case Milon). In English documents of the Middle Ages the name sometimes appears in the Latinized form Milo (genitive Milonis), although the normal Middle English form was Mile, so the final -s must usually represent the possessive ending, i.e. ‘son or servant of Mile’.English : patronymic from the medieval personal name Mihel, an Old French contracted form of Michael.English : occupational name for a servant or retainer, from Latin miles ‘soldier’, sometimes used as a technical term in this sense in medieval documents.Irish (County Mayo) : when not the same as 1 or 3, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maolmhuire, Myles being used as the English equivalent of the Gaelic personal name Maol Muire (see Mullery).Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : unexplained.Dutch : variant of Miels, a variant of Miele 3.John Miles or Myles (c.1621–83), born probably in Herefordshire, England, was a pioneer American Baptist minister who emigrated to New England in 1662 and had a pastorate in Swansea, MA. Many of his descendants spell their name Myles.

    Miles

  • Maslin
  • Surname or Lastname

    English and French

    Maslin

    English and French : from the medieval personal name Masselin. This originated as an Old French pet form of Germanic names with the first element mathal ‘speech’, ‘counsel’. However, it was later used as a pet form of Matthew. Compare Mace. A feminine form, Mazelina, was probably originally a pet form of Matilda.English and French : possibly a metonymic occupational name for a maker of wooden bowls, from Middle English, Old French maselin ‘bowl or goblet of maple wood’ (a diminutive of Old French masere ‘maple wood’, of Germanic origin). In some cases it may derive from the homonymous dialect terms maslin, one of which means ‘brass’ (Old English mæslen, mæstling), the other ‘mixed grain’ (Old French mesteillon).

    Maslin

  • Maxey
  • Surname or Lastname

    English

    Maxey

    English : habitational name from a place in Northamptonshire, so named from the genitive case of the northern English personal name Mack + Old English ēg ‘island’, ‘low-lying land’.Irish : variant of Mackesy, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Macasa ‘descendant of Macus’, a personal name which is probably a form of Magnus.

    Maxey

  • London
  • Surname or Lastname

    English and Jewish (Ashkenazic)

    London

    English and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name for someone who came from London or a nickname for someone who had made a trip to London or had some other connection with the city. In some cases, however, the Jewish name was purely ornamental. The place name, recorded by the Roman historian Tacitus in the Latinized form Londinium, is obscure in origin and meaning, but may be derived from pre-Celtic (Old European) roots with a meaning something like ‘place at the navigable or unfordable river’.

    London

  • Livesay
  • Surname or Lastname

    English (chiefly Lancashire)

    Livesay

    English (chiefly Lancashire) : habitational name from a place in Lancashire, named from Old Norse hlíf ‘protection’, ‘shelter’ (or an unrecorded Old English cognate) + Old English ēg ‘island’.English (chiefly Lancashire) : possibly in a few cases from an Old English personal name composed of the lēof ‘dear’, ‘beloved’ + sige ‘victory’.

    Livesay

  • Mayland
  • Surname or Lastname

    English

    Mayland

    English : habitational name from Mayland in Essex, possibly named in Old English as ‘land or estate (land) where mayweed (mægðe) grows’, or alternatively as ‘(place at) the island’, from Old English ēg-land, with the initial M- derived from a preceding ðǣm, dative case of the definite article.

    Mayland

  • March
  • Surname or Lastname

    English

    March

    English : topographic name for someone who lived on the border between two territories, especially in the Marches between England and Wales or England and Scotland, from Anglo-Norman French marche ‘boundary’ (of Germanic origin; compare Mark 2). In some cases, the surname may be a habitational name from March in Cambridgeshire, which was probably named from the locative case of Old English mearc ‘boundary’.English : from a nickname or personal name for someone who was born or baptized in the month of March (Middle English, Old French march(e), Latin Martius (mensis), from the name of the god Mars) or who had some other special connection with the month, such as owing a feudal obligation then.Catalan : from the personal name March, Catalan equivalent of Mark 1.

    March

  • Case
  • Surname or Lastname

    English

    Case

    English : from Anglo-Norman French cas(s)e ‘case’, ‘container’ (from Latin capsa), hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of boxes or chests.Americanized spelling of French Caisse.Americanized spelling of Kaas.Americanized spelling of German Käse, a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of cheese. Compare Kaeser.

    Case

  • Minshall
  • Surname or Lastname

    English

    Minshall

    English : habitational name from a pair of villages in Cheshire, on either side of the Weaver river, recorded in Domesday Book as Maneshale, from the genitive case of the Old English personal name Mann + Old English scylf ‘shelf’, ‘ledge’.

    Minshall

  • Lodge
  • Surname or Lastname

    English

    Lodge

    English : local name for someone who lived in a small cottage or temporary dwelling, Middle English logge (Old French loge, of Germanic origin). The term was used in particular of a cabin erected by masons working on the site of a particular construction project, such as a church or cathedral, and so it was probably in many cases equivalent to an occupational name for a mason. Reaney suggests that one early form, atte Logge, might sometimes have denoted the warden of a masons’ lodge.Henry Cabot Lodge (1850–1924), the influential U.S. senator from MA, was born in Boston, the only son of John Ellerton Lodge, a prosperous merchant and owner of swift clipper ships engaged in commerce with China, one of several Lodges who emigrated from England in the 18th and 19th centuries.

    Lodge

  • CASEY
  • Female

    English

    CASEY

    Variant spelling of English Cassie, CASEY means "she who entangles men." Compare with masculine Casey. 

    CASEY

  • Mangin
  • Surname or Lastname

    French

    Mangin

    French : derivative of Mange.English and Irish : variant of Mangan, perhaps, in the case of the Irish name, of Manning.

    Mangin

  • Marte
  • Surname or Lastname

    Portuguese and Galician

    Marte

    Portuguese and Galician : variant of Marta.Italian : probably from medieval Greek Martios ‘March’ or the Calabrian dialect word marti ‘Tuesday’, in either case probably denoting someone with some particular association with the month or the day.English : variant spelling of Mart 1.German : from a short form of Martin.

    Marte

  • Lolley
  • Surname or Lastname

    English

    Lolley

    English : unexplained. In some cases, probably an altered form of Irish Lally (see Mullally). This name occurs chiefly in AL.

    Lolley

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  • Alli
  • Girl/Female

    Arabic

    Alli

    Greatest. A- the Supreme Being in the Muslim faith.

  • Yesenia
  • Girl/Female

    American, Australian, Chinese, French, Latin, Spanish

    Yesenia

    A Name of a Tribe in Africa; Flower; Palm Tree

  • Abdul-Muqaddim
  • Boy/Male

    Arabic, Muslim

    Abdul-Muqaddim

    Servant of the Promoter / Expediter

  • Armiya
  • Boy/Male

    Arabic, Farsi

    Armiya

    God has Appointed; Jeremiah

  • SHILOH
  • Male

    English

    SHILOH

    Anglicized form of Hebrew Shiyloh, of uncertain etymology, possibly SHILOH means "he who is to be sent," "he whose it is," "peaceable one" "place of rest" or "rest, tranquility." In the bible, this is a place name and also possibly a reference to the Messiah.

  • HAGANO
  • Male

    Danish

    HAGANO

    , spear, weapon.

  • Sumara
  • Girl/Female

    Muslim/Islamic

    Sumara

    Entertainer

  • Diego
  • Boy/Male

    Spanish American

    Diego

    Hispanic version of James: supplanter; he that replaces. Famous Bearer: famed Mexican artist...

  • Awni |
  • Girl/Female

    Muslim

    Awni |

    To help, Assist

  • Rugvija
  • Girl/Female

    Hindu, Indian

    Rugvija

    Powerful Goddess

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  • Casemented
  • a.

    Having a casement or casements.

  • Iron-cased
  • a.

    Cased or covered with iron, as a vessel; ironclad.

  • Case
  • n.

    A box and its contents; the quantity contained in a box; as, a case of goods; a case of instruments.

  • Positional
  • a.

    Of or pertaining to position.

  • Case
  • n.

    A patient under treatment; an instance of sickness or injury; as, ten cases of fever; also, the history of a disease or injury.

  • Caseic
  • a.

    Of or pertaining to cheese; as, caseic acid.

  • Case
  • v. t.

    To cover or protect with, or as with, a case; to inclose.

  • Caseum
  • n.

    Same as Casein.

  • Case
  • n.

    That which befalls, comes, or happens; an event; an instance; a circumstance, or all the circumstances; condition; state of things; affair; as, a strange case; a case of injustice; the case of the Indian tribes.

  • Case
  • n.

    An inclosing frame; a casing; as, a door case; a window case.

  • Lower-case
  • a.

    Pertaining to, or kept in, the lower case; -- used to denote the small letters, in distinction from capitals and small capitals. See the Note under 1st Case, n., 3.

  • Appositional
  • a.

    Pertaining to apposition; put in apposition syntactically.

  • Case
  • v. t.

    To strip the skin from; as, to case a box.

  • Casemated
  • a.

    Furnished with, protected by, or built like, a casemate.

  • Cased
  • imp. & p. p.

    of Case

  • Caseworm
  • n.

    A worm or grub that makes for itself a case. See Caddice.

  • Case
  • v. i.

    To propose hypothetical cases.