Basic word order of adpositions (Hungarian)

Po: Only postpositions exist.


(1) a fa alatt

the tree under

’under the tree’


(2) (én) mellett-em

I next_to-1sg

’next to me’


(3) túl a folyó-n

over the river-sup

’over the river’


In Hungarian, adpositions with nominal (1) or pronominal (2) arguments are postpositional. Some postpositions (e.g. túl ‘over’, együtt ‘together’, át ‘through/over’, keresztül ‘through’) can precede their base nouns or pronouns, however the word order is not neutral in those constructions (cf. Balogh 2000d).

Author: 

Nikolett F. Gulyás