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For example, in the two sentences below, the phrases Alice Smith and my sister are in apposition, with the appositive identied with italics:
My sisterP, Alice SmithA, likes jelly beans. - The appositive is the noun phrase Alice Smith.
Examples
Appositive genitive
Postpositive no as in:
"the Mountain of Fuji";
REFERENCES
(Fuji no Yama),
In Biblical Hebrew:
Construct, genitive of association as in:
( Gan 'den), "Garden of Eden".[4]
4 See also
Figure of speech
Hyperbaton
Literary device
5 Notes
[1] Commas: Some Common Problems, Princeton Writing Program, Princeton University, 1999, princeton.edu/
writing/center/resources/.
[2] Chapter 5, 14.3 (pages 447448), Rodney Huddleston,
Georey K. Pullum, The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2002. ISBN 0-521-43146-8
[3] 1322 (pages 317318), Herbert Weir Smyth, revised by
Gordon M. Messing, Greek Grammar, Cambridge, Mass.
: Harvard University Press, 1956 Perseus Digital Library
[4] 9.5.3h (p. 153), Bruce K. Waltke and M. O'Connor,
An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax, Winona Lake,
Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1990. ISBN 0-931464-31-5
6 References
A comprehensive treatment of apposition in English
is given in 17.6593 (pages 13001320) and elsewhere in: Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Georey Leech, Jan Svartvik (1985). A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. London and
New York: Longman. ISBN 0-582-51734-6.
On the apposition vs. double subject issue in
Romanian, see: Appositions Versus Double Subject Sentences What Information the Speech
Analysis Brings to a Grammar Debate, by HoriaNicolai Teodorescu and Diana Trandab. In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin,
Heidelberg, ISSN 0302-9743, Volume 4629/2007,
Text, Speech and Dialogue, pp. 286293.
External links
Allen and Greenoughs New Latin Grammar, section 282
Audio illustrations
Appositives at chompchomp.com
Apposition and double subject in Romanian a controversial issue in * Sounds of the Romanian Language
Graphical examples
Appositions Versus Double Subject Sentences
What Information the Speech Analysis Brings to a
Grammar Debate
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