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  <Title>Sydney, July 2006. c(c)2006 Association for Computational Linguistics An Account for Compound Prepositions in Farsi</Title>
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2 Constructions of 'Preposition +
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Noun' in Farsi From among all constructions in Farsi in which a preposition and a complement -generally NPs - occurs, there are 4 classes which seem to have different behaviors of that usual PPs (prepositional phrases) although they have exactly similar structure to that of PPs; These classes are as follows from which we just turn our attention to the first one:  1. preposition + noun  e.g. /bar/ + /asa s-e/ on + basis /e/ an obligatory genitive ending, 2. noun + preposition e.g. /bana / + /bar/ based + on 3. preposition + time / location item e.g. /az/ + /pase/ from + behind 4. time / location item + preposition e.g. /pos t/ + /be/ back + to  From the form point of view, we can simply consider preposition such as /bar/ 'on', /az/ 'from/of', /dar/ 'in', /ba / 'with', /be/ 'to' as (real) prepositions and what comes immediately after, as complement.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> However, a close observation reveals that not in all constructions consisting of a proposition and a noun the immediate noun can be considered as the noun head of the NP complement. That is in some phrases the head preposition is the compound preposition (a preposition and a noun) and then the noun after this construction is the complement:</Paragraph>
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