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In this article I argue that A+P adverbs like hardop 'aloud' and languit 'at full length' are words composed of an adjective (hard 'hard', lang 'long') and an intransitive adposition (a particle or sometimes a locational adposition) functioning as a suffix. This description differs from Corver's (2022), according to whom the expressions are adpositional phrases. His analysis is meant to illustrate six points of view that have become constants in generative grammar. I follow these constants, but because of a partially different application, the result is different. Corver treats the P in these expressions as if it were used transitively, which leads to a description that is semantic in nature, but presented as abstract and syntactic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Languages like Afrikaans are sometimes said to feature a class of adpositions that can be described as “intransitive” (e.g. binne “inside”, bo “upstairs”, agter “in the back”, buite “outside”, onder “downstairs” voor “in the front”). It is argued that such elements in fact instantiate a “hybrid” category – the locative noun category – which is not missing a Ground external argument but is actually lexicalising the nominal structure associated with that Ground argument itself. Such locative nouns pattern with R-pronouns and home-class nouns and therefore probably share a similar internal structure with these better-studied elements of language.