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  2. Locative adverb - Wikipedia

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    A locative adverb is a type of adverb that refers to a location or to a combination of a location and a relation to that location. Generally, a locative adverb is semantically equivalent to a prepositional phrase involving a locative or directional preposition. In English, for example, homeward is a locative adverb, specifying a

  3. Adverb - Wikipedia

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    An adverb is a word or an expression that generally modifies a verb, an adjective, another adverb, a determiner, a clause, a preposition, or a sentence. Adverbs typically express manner, place, time, frequency, degree, or level of certainty by answering questions such as how , in what way , when , where , to what extent .

  4. English adverbs - Wikipedia

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    William Bullokar wrote the earliest grammar of English, published in 1586.It includes a chapter on adverbs. His definition follows: An adverb is a part of speech joined with a verb or participle to declare their signification more expressly by such adverb: as, come hither if they wilt go forth, sometimes with an adjective: as, thus broad: & sometimes joined with another adverb: as, how soon ...

  5. Locative case - Wikipedia

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    The latter is not always used to indicate location, while other cases may also be used to specify location (e.g. the genitive case, as in у окна, u okna ("by the window")). Statements such as в библиотеке , v biblioteke ("in the library") or на Аляске , na Aljaske ("in Alaska "), demonstrate the use of the prepositional ...

  6. Locality (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    The following examples show the application of Binding Theory, Principle C which states: R-expressions cannot be bound, and certain DP's, such as R-expressions are never related to other DP's. [ 1 ] In English, R-expressions refer to Quantified Expressions, [ 2 ] (e.g. every, all, some...etc.) and Independently Referential Expressions, [ 2 ] (e ...

  7. Part of speech - Wikipedia

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    Adverb (describes, limits) a modifier of an adjective, verb, or another adverb (very, quite). Adverbs make language more precise. Preposition (relates) a word that relates words to each other in a phrase or sentence and aids in syntactic context (in, of). Prepositions show the relationship between a noun or a pronoun with another word in the ...

  8. Adposition - Wikipedia

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    Such a phrase can function as an adjective or as an adverb. A less common type of adposition is the circumposition, which consists of two parts that appear on each side of the complement. Other terms sometimes used for particular types of adposition include ambiposition, inposition and interposition.

  9. Time–manner–place - Wikipedia

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    In linguistic typology, time–manner–place is a sentence structure that defines the order of adpositional phrases and adverbs in a sentence: "yesterday", "by car", "to the store". Japanese, Afrikaans, [1] Dutch, [2] [3] Mandarin, and German [4] use this structure. An example of this appositional ordering in German is: