preposition

a part of speech appearing as a connective before an argument or noun phrase serving to indicate a relationship of the noun thus connected and its superordinate structure, ¶2-2-8; the p. is not fully analyzed in this work; the p. seems sometimes to be a complemented adverb depending on whether it is the p. itself or its phrase that is being modified, ¶8-5-5; the case of its argument being more than a noun phrase is motivated by the possiblity of its omission with noun clauses, ¶8-6-5; the p. may most simply be of being a special analysis in the partitive phrase, ¶11-4-5