In linguistic typology, time–manner–place is a sentence structure that defines the order of adpositional phrases and adverbs in a sentence: "yesterday", "by car", "to the store". Japanese, Afrikaans, Dutch, Mandarin, and German use this structure.
An example of this appositional ordering in German is:
The temporal phrase – ' (when? – "today") – comes first, the manner – ' (how? – "by car") – is second, and the place – ' (where? – "to Munich") – is third.
See also
- Syntax
- Adverb