Abstract
Abstract The adpositional system of the Uralic languages reflects the implications and inheritance of SOV word order and the syntactic sphere of inflectional forms. Most Uralic languages only use postpositions or syntactically corresponding relational nouns, whereas the north-western branches, namely Saamic and Finnic, have both postpositions and prepositions. There are two major aspects constraining the diversity of adpositional phrase (AdpP) in Uralic. Firstly, the order of the constituents is one of the basic typological parameters. Secondly, the morphosyntactic structure of AdpPs yields considerably more diversity and is more illustrative for the functional properties of the AdpP. Both the head and the complement may be inflected, whereas a pronominal complement may be fully omitted. New adpositions emerge from either relational nouns or adverbs.
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