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Conlangery #43: Adpositions

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Are You Ready to Move On?

In English, for some of our prepositions, we do things like, I am in the house versus I'm going into the house. In is location into is motion on is location onto is motion towards the surface of something. With a verb indicating the motion towards or away from. Whether you have motion towards motion away from our location, not all languages encode all three. For example, some will have motion towards and location take the same form. Whereas motion away from will be something else. And then there's a noun phrase where the last element of that noun just happens to always encode location,. Like above, below, inside, outside all of those. Lee: Have you heard of

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