Prepositions

hasSubClass

• hasSource https://onlymyenglish.com/types-of-preposition/

  • Simple Preposition
  • Compound Preposition.
  • Double Preposition.
  • Disguised Preposition.
  • Phrasal Preposition.
  • Participle Preposition.
  • Detached Preposition
  • Appropriate Preposition

• Some of the most common prepositions that begin prepositional phrases are to, of, about, at, before, after, by, behind, during, for, from, in, over, under, and with.

Resources

• http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~packema/teaching/msc-syntax/MSc%20Syntax%20lecture%203.pdf
  • [-] Let us call the constituents that appear in the subject, direct object, and indirect object positions the syntactic arguments of the verb – to be distinguished from the semantic arguments as discussed above. Thus, the syntactic valency of a verb is the property that determines how many syntactic arguments the verb takes, as opposed to the semantic valency of a predicate, which says how many semantic arguments the predicate takes