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====Prepositions==== | ====Prepositions==== | ||
To express many spatial or temporal relations and mark some diverse semantic roles, TolsianR relies on several function words which are placed before their complement and are thus prepositions. Here is a non-exhaustive list of prepositions : | To express many spatial or temporal relations and mark some diverse semantic roles, TolsianR relies on several function words which are placed before their complement and are thus prepositions. Here is a non-exhaustive list of prepositions : | ||
<poem> | |||
al - "to, towards" (direction) | |||
ao - "at" (position) | |||
alnit - "near, next to, around" | |||
aldig - "around" | |||
ante - "before" (temporal) | |||
danæ̊ - "after" (temporal), "behind" (spatial) | |||
dafac - "before, in front of" (spatial) | |||
apratke - "so, in order to" | |||
vek - "with" | |||
meko - "home, at someone's home" | |||
di - "in" | |||
da - "of, from" | |||
dal - "some" (partitive) | |||
damêr - "since" | |||
uduc - "under" | |||
duc - "on, over" | |||
ceda - "up to, until, till" | |||
pur - "towards, to, till, for" | |||
</poem> | |||
===Syntax=== | ===Syntax=== | ||