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Apposition
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Adposition Phrases (PPs) can also be used as appositives.

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The following example shows that an idiomatic PP can be used as an appositive to the phrases which are bracketed in the example below:

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Do leiste [swiet yn 't sliepen], [bedobbe], yn 'e sûs
you laid.2SG sweet in the sleeping buried in the swoon
You were lying sweetly asleep, buried, in a doze

The term apposition is normally used in case the appositive phrase directly follows the nominal argument of which it is predicated, as in the following example:

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Romke, heal yn 'e sûs, lake wat
Romke half in the swoon laughed a.little
Romke, half asleep, laughed a bit
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