The Isolating Conlang: Implicit adjectives for adpositions

In some languages, adjectives can take complements - e.g. afraid of bears, proud of himself, full of shit, ... In English, almost all such complements take 'of' as their preposition, and some take 'by' (notably past participles). In other languages that have similar complements, a wider selection of prepositions may occur, and The Isolating Conlang (henceforth TIC) is an example of such a language.

In TIC, the number of adpositions in general is large. In part, this is due to two historical processes of preposition grammaticalization having occurred: to some extent, verbs have turned into prepositions, to some extent nouns have turned into prepositions.

Now, sometimes, the association between an adjective and a preposition is particularly strong, and in these cases, omitting the adjective is very common. With the adjective omitted, it is possible to have a copy of the preposition appear at the onset of the sentence or before the verb. Obviously, this is somewhat of a lexical thing, and so a short appendix listing the meanings of adjectives that can be omitted is supplied.

Appendix: Some prepositions in TIC, some with implicit adjectives

ḱesp: on, n. head

suspicious, careful, → der lə ḱesp in "I am (keeping tabs) on him"

tsim: by, with, n. group

similar to → ir kewen tsim subul 'he runs like a calf'

der lə tsim kmtok → I group with my brother/I am similar to my brother

convinced, agreeing: ar lə tsim in → you are (agreeing) with him 

dəlts: in collusion with, with, also an adverb

Dəlts! (Do! Join! You must!)

der lə delts in → I and he collaborate

em in kwale dəlts em vupi → then he plays together with (people) then self → sometimes he plays (music) together with others, sometimes by himself

kip: for, especially when doing something that is someone else's obligation or by someone else's request

eager, servile, subordinate

ner: for, to, especially when handing over or giving things to someone

charitable, helpful 

semag: equipped with, having, n. hand, v. carry

skilled, talented → ar lə semag hilhil: "you are (skilled) with the flute"

in kwale semag hilhil → he played the flute skillfully

ragad: inside,

has a peculiar inverse meaning with the adjective full: full of [content] inside, mehar ragad [content]

gad: in

occupied with, fortunate with, 

gad der lə gad məniḱ : I have bountiful catch of fish, I am fortunate with a catch of fish

gad der lə gad sauttm : I am busy with business

segad: covered with, n. pelt, v. lie under, cover with

occupied with, bored with, 

kpem: under, covered by, n. roof, tent

pregnant → wa lə kpem in, "she is (pregnant) by him"

This also can be used as an adverbial to express who the father is with any pregnancy-related verbs, wa səd gahar kpem in ≃ she gave birth to his son, we səd ruhal kpem in ≃ she gave birth to his daughter, wa tom tekṃka kpem in ≃ she is about to give birth to his first child, wa tom tekṃka ≃ she is about to give birth to her first child

kvat: moving in the direction of, (located) somewhere along the way to

agreeing with, supportive of (human object), → ar tom kvat in? are you in agreement with him? 

hungry for, eager for, interested in → ar lə kvat qurpa, "you like fights." 

kev: moving in the direction of, v. 'fetch, approach'

quick to, habitually   → in lə kev qurpa, he is quick to find a fight; in lə kev kmtok, he always goes to his brother (for help), in wəl kev sauttm astm-ḱe, he is quick to (make) business (out of) anything (literally "he have quick business anything")

sarə: along, located somewhere along the way to, n. road.

gug lə sarə → the house is along our path

xuk: at the house or abode of [complement], (there is a similar cognate noun, gug)

related → in lə wa lə xuk or in lə xuk wa, "they (he and she) are related", or "he is related to her". Due to cultural reasons, relatedness is not necessarily considered reflexive. 

seve: about, (from noun meaning 'speech')

right → in lə seve əm "he is (right) about it"

 esteemed for  → seve ar lə seve kwale hilhil, he is (esteemed) for his flute playing