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What do you mean? I don't really grok Template. What if we keep the category, but don't want to show it as a part of speech in the category? Can we not have one without the other? How about dumping {{poscatboiler}} then? Or did I miss a vote on that? DCDuringTALK * Holiday Greetings! 18:52, 29 December 2009 (UTC)Reply
Can't think of a real reason to delete it. Is there any reason not to keep the category, even if it just has one or two articles in it, which are nevertheless correct? Mglovesfun (talk) 19:01, 29 December 2009 (UTC)Reply
Sorry, I misunderstood your question. (I thought you wanted to know if it'd be removed from English POSes' list if deleted, which, yes, it would, automatically, AFAICT.) It seems it can be removed from English POSes' list if not deleted by removing |ROOT/sub12=postposition from template:poscatboiler/theList. But it would still be categorized in English POSes, and link thereto atop its own page. To get rid of those without doing the same for every language would require more template-fu than I have.—msh210℠20:09, 29 December 2009 (UTC)Reply
Our definition of postposition seems to imply that they don't exist in English; if true, this should be deleted. If false, could someone de-specify the definition and add an example or two to the category. Conrad.Irwin15:01, 30 December 2009 (UTC)Reply
Most English reference grammars don't use the term, but often point out that preposition in English is a misnomer insofar as it is applied to terms like notwithstanding, which can appear either before and after its noun, and apart and aside when not followed by a PP headed by "from". Some put ago and on (in the sense of "following" or "after") in the same category. DCDuringTALK * Holiday Greetings! 17:25, 30 December 2009 (UTC)Reply
Judging from the use of the term in the context of the language pages it seems intended to reflect a grammatical category for a type of function word that seems usually to function like prepositions. I don't think that anyone would remove an English word from the English adjective class merely because it was used usually or always after the noun it modifies.
Because this might be a useful class in English, albeit in a sense different from its purported sense in the implicit universal grammar sense it was being imposed here, I have removed {{poscatboiler}} from Category:English parts of speech and replaced it with corrected and augmented text. The decision to keep it or not need not be influenced by the peripheral issue of that template family. DCDuringTALK * Holiday Greetings! 18:19, 30 December 2009 (UTC)Reply
No, it's still an adverb. "Five years thereafter" means "thereafter by five years", just like "five years later", "five years earlier", etc. This is different from "five years ago", where "ago" is a postposition because it can't be used on its own. "He died thereafter" works, but not *"He died ago". 2003:E5:EF08:5924:1F1:348D:D9AF:CCEE14:05, 5 November 2020 (UTC)Reply
