different between prepositionally vs prepositional

English

Etymology

prepositional +? -ly

Adverb

prepositionally (not comparable)

1. In a prepositional manner.
   • 2007, Kim Schulte, Prepositional Infinitives in Romance: A Usage-based Approach to Syntactic Change

     The meaning of the gerundive can further be modified prepositionally.

   • 1879, William Dwight Whitney, Sanskrit Grammar

     Words are thus used prepositionally along with all the noun-cases excepting the dative.

2. As a preposition.

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English

Etymology

From Latin praepositi? (“a setting before, a preposition”), a calque of Ancient Greek ???????? (próthesis, “a setting before, preposition (grammar)”) +? -al

Adjective

prepositional (not comparable)

1. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preposition.

   •     Although we have concentrated on Prepositions which take zero Complements, NP Complements, or clausal Complements in our discussion above, there seems no reason in principle to exclude the possibility of Prepositions taking prepositional Complements. And it may well be that items such as those italicised below are Prepositions which subcategorise a PP Complement headed by of:
     (80) (a)      He stayed at home because [of the strike]
     (80) (b)      He fell out [of the window]
     (80) (c)      Few people outside [of the immediate family] know
     (80) (d)   %It fell off [of the table] (dialectal)

2. (grammar) Of the prepositional case.

Derived terms

• prepositional case
• prepositionally

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Noun

prepositional (plural prepositionals)

1. (grammar) The prepositional case.

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