Tags · Domain Spatial relation Relations like in, on, under, behind. 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 Existence 4Location 2Possession 3Negation 4Indefiniteness 1Quantification 1Perception 2Obligation 1Modality 1Device operation 1Grammatical relations 1
