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Conlangery #43: Adpositions

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How to Use Adpositional Phrases in English

Prepositional phrases can have odd syntax. They might be post positions in an otherwise prepositional. Ancient Egyptian was obsessed with distinguishing adverbial-like predicates from other kinds of predicates. Some languages do not like this at all and require you to link an adpositional phrase to its noun with some overt syntax. We will be seeing something else in fact in the featured conline today, I'm guessing he would use the funky H thing.

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