The property Adposition Noun_Phrase has the value "yes" when there is at least one adposition in the language that precedes the noun phrase it occurs with. In this case, the adposition is called a preposition. As with all word order properties, we restrict our attention to <a href="/glossary#productive">productive word order</a> patterns.<br>
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<b><a href="/glossary#adposition">Definition of Adposition</a></b><br>
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<b>General Note on Word Order Properties</b>: <br>
A "yes" value for Adposition Noun_Phrase does not exclude a "yes" value for Noun_Phrase Adposition. In other words, a language may have both prepositions and postpositions.<br>
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<b>NA (Not Applicable)</b>: A language has the value NA for this property if it does not have any sort of adpositional morpheme.<br>
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Examples:<br><br>

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English is "yes" for Adposition Noun_Phrase: <br><br>

I went to the store. <br>
I sat on the rock.<br>
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Ewe is “yesâ€ for Adposition Noun_Phrase:<br>
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Kofi    	Da	nu    	kple  Ama     (preposition = kple)<br>
Kofi	cook	thing  	with Ama<br>
“Kofi cooked with Ama.â€<br>
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Ewe is also “yesâ€ for Noun_Phrase Adposition:<br>
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Agbale la   le           kplO  dzi               (post-position = dzi)<br>
book   the   be.LOC table  on<br>
"The book is on the table."<br>
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Although the word <i>dzi</i> "on" in Ewe is an inalienable noun, we count it here as an adposition. In certain languages, locative adpositions are closely related to the category of inalienable nouns. For the purposes of this property, these are counted as adpositions.<br>
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