Listing all the postpositions from the literature and their attribute values. A value of 1 indicates that the given postposition always produces the typical behaviour of postpositions in the syntactic structure under examination. Columns:
- pos: the preferred ordering of the postposition and its complement regardless of their adjacency.
- zero: the case-marking of the complement. The exact case required by the postposition is listed in the table.
- adj: delineates the strict adjacency of the two words.
- wh represents the word's behaviour in wh-questions. Does the postposition always follow the wh-word, or can it stay behind?
- dem: details the structure with a demonstrative pronoun. Is the postposition copied onto the demonstrative as well, or is only the case marker copied?
- pers pron: specifies the structure with a personal pronoun. When postpositions take a pronominal complement, where does the agreement marker appear? On the postposition itself, or on another element?
A question mark indicates that I am not entirely certain in the acceptability of my examples for testing the given property. A '-' marks that the given postposition does not appear in the given construction (with a personal pronoun, for example)
Here I sum up the teatures and their binary values used when evaluating the behaviour of postpositions in the corpus. P stands for postposition.
| Column | the feature | if 1 | if 0 |
|---|---|---|---|
| pos | position of P relative to the noun | P always follows the noun | P may appear before and after the noun |
| zero | the case of the noun | always caseless noun | P takes a noun with a lexical case |
| adj | the adjacency of the two words | noun and P always next to each other | other words may appear between P and the noun |
| wh | the behaviour of P in wh-questions | P follows the wh-word | P stays behind |
| dem | P's behaviour with demonstrative pronouns | P is copied onto the demonstrative | P is not copied onto the demonstrative |
| pers pron | person-number agreement with a personal pronoun | person-number agreement appears on P | person-number agreement not on P |
| postposition | meaning | pos | zero | adj | wh | dem | pers pron |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| alatt | under | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| alól | from under | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| ellen | against | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| elől | from in front of | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| előtt | in front of | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| felé | towards | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| felől | from the direction of | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| fölé | to above | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| fölött | (at) above | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| helyett | instead of | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| iránt | towards | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| köré | to around | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| körül | around | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| közé | to between | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| között | between | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| közül | from between | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| mellé | to next to | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| mellett | next to, beside | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| mellől | from next to | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| miatt | because of | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| mögé | to behinf | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| mögött | behind | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| mögül | from behind | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| nélkül | without | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| szerint | according to | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| után | after | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| által | by | 1 | 0:sup | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| érdekében | on behalf of | 1 | 0:dat | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| esetében | in case of | 1 | 0:dat | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| fölül | from above | 1 | 0:sup | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| részére | for | 1 | 0:dat | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| részéről | on the part of | 1 | 0:dat | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| során | during | 1 | 0:dat | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| számára | for | 1 | 0:dat | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| fogva | from (time) | 1 | 0:abl | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| nézve | regarding | 1 | 0:sub | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| alapján | based on | 1 | 0:dat | 1 | 1 | 0/1 | - |
| céljából | with the aim of | 1 | 0:dat | 1 | 1 | 0 | - |
| ellenére | despite | 1 | 0:dat | 1 | 1 | 0 | - |
| értelmében | in pursuance of | 1 | 0:dat | 1 | 1 | 0 | - |
| esetén | in case of | 1 | 0:dat | 1 | 1 | 0 | - |
| folyamán | in the course of | 1 | 0:dat | 1 | 1 | 0 | - |
| kívülről | from outside | 1 | 0:sup | 1 | 1 | 0 | - |
| következtében | following | 1 | 0:dat | 1 | 1 | 0 | - |
| nyomán | based on | 1 | 0:dat | 1 | 1 | 0 | - |
| révén | by means of | 1 | 0:dat | 1 | 1 | 0 | - |
| útján | by way of | 1 | 0:dat | 1 | 1 | 0 | - |
| folytán | as a consequence of | 1 | 0:dat | 1 | ? | 0 | - |
| közben | during | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
| múltán | after (time) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | - |
| óta | since | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
| végett | with the aim of | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 |
| gyanánt | as | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| hosszat | for | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| ízben | times | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| létére | despite being | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| módjára | way of | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 0? | - |
| módra | mode of | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| múlva | after (time) | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| táján | around | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 -? | -? | - |
| tájban/tájt | around (time) | 1 | 1 | 1 | -? | -? | - |
| irányában | towards | 1 | 0:dat | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| javára | in favour of | 1 | 0:dat | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| kedvéért | for the sake of | 1 | 0:dat | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| alul | below | 1 | 0:sup | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| képest | compared to | 1 | 0:all | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| kívülre | to outside | 1 | 0:sup | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| túlra | to beyond | 1 | 0:sup | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| túlról | from beyond | 1 | 0:sup | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| hasonlóan | similarly | 0 | 0:all | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| kivéve | except for | 0 | 0:acc | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| kívül | outside | 0 | 0:sup | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| szembe | to opposite to | 0 | 0:ins | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| szemben | opposite to | 0 | 0:ins | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| szemközt | opposite to | 0 | 0:ins | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| felül | over | 1 | 0:sup | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| alá | to under | 0 | 0:dat | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| elé | to in front of | 0 | 0:dat | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| kezdve | beginning from | 0 | 0:abl | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| dacára | despite | 0 | 0:dat | 1 | 1 | 0 | - |
| belül | inside of | ? | 0:sup | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| át | through | 0 | 0:sup | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| együtt | together | 0 | 0:ins | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| keresztül | through | 0 | 0:sup | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |