ABSTRACT
Object of a preposition which is determined by the government of the verb: He believes in ghosts, where the preposition in is required in this case by the verb to believe. ( also prepositional phrase)
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syntactic function
Complex syntactic category with differing categorial representations: along the steep road (preposition+noun phrase), since yesterday (preposition+adverb), hereby, hitherto (proprepositional phrase). Prepositional phrases function primarily as adverbials (Phil went hiking in the mountains), attributes (The cabin in the mountains) and objects (Phil thinks a lot about the mountains). The internal structure of prepositional phrases as well as their position and function in a sentence are analyzed differently depending on the theoretical approach.
