/ instituut voor de Nederlandse taal / Taalportaal
bibliography glossary about
  • Dutch1
  • Frisian
  • Saterfrisian
  • Afrikaans
Show all
    Preposition + Adposition Phrase as its complement
    quickinfo

    The prepositions fan of (the starting point of an interval) and oant until (the end point of an interval) can be combined with a nominal complement, as in the first example, or with a prepositional complement, as in the second example below:

    1
    a. Fan de earste wrâldkriich oant de twadde
    from the first world.war until the second
    From World War 1 until World War 2
    b. Fan foar de earste wrâldkriich oant nei de twadde
    from before the first world.war until after the second
    From before World War 1 until after World War 2

    These prepositions denote the starting point and the end point of an interval, usually a temporal or a spatial interval, that is, they usually refer to time or space. The preposition tusken between is used to denote a subpart of an interval. The prepositions mentioned may also combine with a postpositional complement (preposition + postpositional phrase), as in the example below:

    2
    In brief fan [efter Ljouwert wei]
    a letter from behind Ljouwert away
    A letter from behind Ljouwert

    Reference to the area around a point is made with the preposition om around (reference to the interval around a point).

    readmore

    More details about the preposition + PP as its complement can be found by following the corresponding links:

    References
      About this article
      Author(s): Eric Hoekstra
      Category: Frisian Syntax
      Keywords: prepositionfan 'of'oant 'until'tusken 'between' and om 'around'
      Version: 1.0, December 2015
      Version history:
      version editor(s) date remarks
      1.0 Eric Hoekstra December 2015
      printreport errorcite
      Jump to:
      X