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	Phrase - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In grammar, a phrase (Greek φράση, sentence, expression, see also strophe) is a group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence.
		The two types are sometimes commonly referred to as adpositional phrases.
		For example prepositional phrases express a figure-ground relation in which the prepositional complement is the ground, the preposition itself specifies the relation, and the precedent element is the figure.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phrase (643 words)

	Noun phrase - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In grammatical theory, a noun phrase (abbreviated NP) is a phrase whose head is a noun or a pronoun, optionally accompanied by a set of modifiers.
		Complements, in the form of an adpositional phrase (the man with a fl hat), or a relative clause (the books that I bought yesterday).
		In a phrase such as The king of Sparta's wife, the possessive clitic -'s is not added to the king who actually owns the wife, but instead to Sparta, to which the wife only remotely belongs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Noun_phrase (183 words)

	adpositional phrase Information Center - adpositional phrase
		An adpositional phrase is a linguistic adpositional phrase term for a phrase with an adposition - a preposition or a postposition - as head.
		Depending on the type of adposition used in the language, they can be prepositional or postpositional phrases.
		Prepositional phrases generally act as complements and adjuncts of noun phrases and verb phrases.
	www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Linguistic_Topics_A_-_Co/adpositional_phrase.html (55 words)

	Spanish Phrases -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In the phrase ''white house'' or ''house at the end of the street'', the part of the phrase other than the head (''house'') acts as a adjunct to the head.
		A prepositional phrase is a linguistic term for a phrase whose head is a preposition.
		Adposition is a common term for both prepositions and postpositions.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/138/spanish-phrases.html (993 words)

	Adposition - QuickSeek Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		An adposition is a term in grammar used for a wide variety of particles and affixes which are attached to a noun phrase to modify it or to show its relation to another concept or situation in the same clause.
		Phrases with an adposition as head are called adpositional phrases.
		Although the canonical object of a preposition is a noun phrase, there are cases in which another kind of phrase forms a preposition's object.
	adposition.quickseek.com (876 words)

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		A verb phrase is a syntactic unit that corresponds to the predicate.
		The preposition precedes its complement, that is typically a noun, a noun phrase or a pronoun.
		Adjectival phrases may occur as premodifiers to a noun (a bin full of toys), or as predicatives to a verb (the bin is full of toys).
	lirics.loria.fr /doc_pub/syntacticfeature.xml (299 words)

	ISMS: Morphology
		Adpositional morphemes are a class of function morphemes which express grammatical and/or semantic relationships between nominal constructions primarily based on time, space, causality or instrumentality.
		An adpositional morpheme category containing irregular, abbreviated forms of the base adpositional morphemes which are attached to nominal stems as prefixes for the purpose of converting such stems into adpositional modifiers.
		Irregualr adpositional morphemes constitute an adpositional morpheme category containing irregular, abbreviated forms of the base adpositional morphemes which are attached to nominal stems as prefixes for the purpose of converting such stems into adpositional modifiers.
	idrani.perastar.com /idrani/ISMS_morphology.htm (4188 words)

	Upto11.net - Wikipedia Article for Phrase (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Prepositional phrase with a preposition as head (e.g.
		Noun phrase with a noun as head (e.g.
		Verb phrase with a verb as head (e.g.
	www.upto11.net /generic_wiki.php?q=phrase (404 words)

	Adposition Biography,info
		In grammar, an adposition is any of a wide variety of particles and affixes which are attached to a noun phrase (their object) in order to modify the noun phrase or show its relation to another concept or situation in the same clause.
		Adpositions are classified by their placement relative to their object; the most common kinds of adpositions are prepositions, which precede their object, and postpositions, which follow them.
		Adpositions are very often used to form adverbials, particularly in Germanic languages, such as English.
	www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Of (980 words)

	complex phrase (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A phrase is a group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence.
		An interesting issue that has arisen is the distinction between a complement and adjunct.
		House at the end of the street, though it is a constituent of the sentence, is not a phrase, at least not as in the linguistic sense, it's not really grammatical by itself in English; it needs some specifier like the to be a complete syntactic phrase.
	www.33beat.com /complex_phrase.html (1303 words)

	Language evolution and the icëlani (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Which one is used depends highly on what kind of adpositional phrase is involved.
		For example, in an adpositional phrase before the verb, zai4 ("at")is used as a sort of "generic preposition" and a specific postposition is added at the end.
		In general, adverbial phrases that express "conditions" or "descriptions" of the verb come before, while those expressing "results" of the verb come after.
	www.zompist.com /board/messages/473.html (445 words)

	Forum - Nieuwsbrief Faculteit der Letteren - Universiteit Leiden
		The complexity of the Dutch adpositional phrase is highly interesting from a syntactic and semantic point of view.
		On the basis of the characteristics found for the various adpositional constructions the second part provides (generative) theoretical analyses for the internal structure of simplex and complex PPs and length modification.
		The third part of this thesis is concerned with case studies, investigating the interaction between the internal syntactic structure and the PP's external syntax.
	www.let.leidenuniv.nl /forum/02_7/bibliotheek/1e.htm (168 words)

	Tilburg University: A Modern Grammar of Dutch (MGD)
		Extensive descriptions of the verbal, nominal, adjectival and adpositional phrase will be provided.
		In 1998, we obtained a programme subsidy from NWO for executing four subprojects concerning “syntax proper”, which aimed at providing extensive descriptions of the verbal, nominal, adjectival and adpositional phrase.
		Hans Broekhuis (1994): The Referential properties of Noun Phrases I. The Distribution and Interpretation of the Reflexive, Reciprocal, Personal and Possessive Pronouns.
	www.tilburguniversity.nl /faculties/arts/research/broekhuis1 (209 words)

	Information , Tips , download - Noun phrase (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In grammar ; a noun phrase (abbreviated NP) is a phrase whose Head (linguistics) is a noun or a pronoun ; optionally accompanied by a set of modifiers
		- Complement (linguistics) ; in the form of an adpositional phrase (the man with a fl hat); or a relative clause (the books that I bought yesterday)
		In English language ; for some purposes noun phrases can be treated as single grammatical units
	noun.phrase.en.server-web.info (199 words)

	prepositional phrases - Infosniff.com - Unleash the power of search engine!!! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A prepositional phrase (PP) is a linguistic term for a phrase whose head is a preposition.
		for both prepositional and postpositional phrases are adpositional phrases.
		A phrase is a group of words that lacks either a subject, verb, or both.
	www.infosniff.com /search/prepositional-phrases (244 words)

	6•4•1•26. The Agentive Adverb (قيدِ کُنادی) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Nominal adpositional compounds with the simple preposition “be’”;, whose adpositional foci are explicative genitive compounds, the formation basis of which is the noun “vasila, vasile وسيله”.
		Nominal adpositional compounds with the simple preposition “be’”;, whose adpositional foci are possessive genitive compounds, the formation basis of which is the noun “dast دست”.
		Nominal adpositional compounds with the simple prepositions “^az’” and “ze’”, whose
	www.fazel.de /dastur/EN/6-4-1-26_agentive_adverb.html (173 words)

	Ritva Laury
		Renewal, layering and obsolescence: Oblique cases and adpositions in Finnish.
		Paper given at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America.
		The case of the noun phrase in the Finnish adpositional phrase: A discourse-pragmatic account.
	www.csufresno.edu /linguistics/directory/laury.htm (980 words)

	LINGUIST List 17.832: Semantic Shift Name;Syntactic Analysis of Sentence
		I have been working on this syntactic problem for about a week now, for the
		purpose of understanding fronting or adpositioning, but I do not think I
		But is the adpositional phrase a participial phrase, or the verb in the
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/17/17-832.html (431 words)

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