English Dictionary

adposition

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈæd.pəˌzɪ.ʃən/

名詞

(grammar) An element that combines syntactically with a phrase and indicates how that phrase should be interpreted in the surrounding context; a preposition or postposition.

日本語の意味

文中で名詞句やフレーズと結合し、その句が周囲の文脈でどのように解釈されるかを示す要素。前置詞や後置詞のことを指す。

The linguistics professor explained how an adposition combines with noun phrases to express spatial and temporal relations.

言語学の教授は、前置詞や後置詞が名詞句と結びついて空間的・時間的関係を表す方法を説明した。

意味（1）

(grammar) An element that combines syntactically with a phrase and indicates how that phrase should be interpreted in the surrounding context; a preposition or postposition.

Throughout this book, I have assumed that adpositions (prepositions and postpositions) are not lexical categories, but rather functional categories. […] While this view of adpositions is far from unprecedented, it runs contrary to the more standard generative treatment, championed by Jackendoff (1977: 31-33), in which adpositions constitute a fourth lexical category, filling out the logical space of possibilities defined by the two binary-valued features +!/!!-!! mathsf N and +!/!!-!! mathsf V.

adpositions （ plural ）