Published September 15, 2022
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Evidence of Unexpressed Postpositions in Urdu Phrase Structure
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- 1. Assistant Professor, Govt. Islamia Graduate College, Civil Lines, Lahore, Pakistan
- 2. Lecturer in English, Department of English University of Okara Punjab, Pakistan
- 3. Assistant Professor, IR/Deputy Director of Academics & Diplomatic Relations, Minhaj University Lahore, Pakistan
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Urdu postpositions are much different from English prepositions, not only semantically but also morphologically and syntactically. Morphologically they appear as clitics, as bound morphemes, and as phonetically null entities. As clitics, they perform dual function: case markers and postpositions. Syntactically, they behave in three different ways: (1) as overt postpositions, (2) in the form of OAF, (3) by staying completely unactualized. This paper describes their silent behaviour.
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