ABSTRACT
Prepositions can be postposed in Norwegian. Prepositions describe relations; they locate one entity relative to another in space. Prepositions can involve temporal relations; locating events in time, as in Kari synger 'i' kveld, ‘Kari is singing tonight’; Beate kommer om atte dager, ‘Beate will come in eight days’. Prepositions can be morphologically simplex, such as 'i', ‘in’, pa, ‘on’, and the most frequent ones are. By contrast, not all prepositions can combine with both infinitives and clauses. Not all temporal prepositions are so general, however; for example, for, ‘before’ can combine with clauses, but not with infinitives. Av preposition, related to English ‘of’, ‘off’, can be used to locate participants with respect to some landmark, cf. Finn gikk av sleden, ‘Finn got off the sled’. Blant preposition usually translates as ‘among’: Blant de mistenkte er det mange uskyldige, ‘Among the suspects many are innocent’.
