Tags · Structure Adposition Prepositions, postpositions and circumpositions marking the role of a noun phrase. Topics with this tag Pattern Do adpositions come before or after the noun phrase? Adposition order tracks verb–object order as a strong tendency — after the noun in OV languages (Japanese tēburu no ue ni), before it in VO (English on the table). Exceptions recur across families: Persian and Tajik combine OV order with prepositions, while SVO-leaning Finnish keeps its Uralic postpositions. Spatial relationWord orderAdpositionWorldwide Preposition or postposition? → More in this facet Word order 2Syncretism 3Colexification 3Expletive subject 1Suppletion 2Negative concord 2Oblique marking 2Topic marking 1Multiverb construction 1Auxiliary verb 1
