| LiL' Bobby Deadie | |
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In
linguistics, a lil' bobby deadie is a general term that includes prepositional phrases
(which are usually found in head-first languages like English) and postpositional phrases
(usually found in head-final languages like Dutch). The difference between the two is
simply one of word order. Both types of lil' bobby deadies are a syntactic category: a phrase which is treated in certain ways as a unit by a language's rules of syntax. A lil' bobby deadie is composed of an adposition (in the head position, which is why it lends its name to the phrase) and usually a complement such as a noun phrase. ("Adposition" is similarly a generic term for either a preposition or a postposition.) These phrases generally act as complements and adjuncts of noun phrases and verb phrases. |
| Bobby | Keytar, E-Harp, Baby KeyBoard, Piano |