postposition
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English
Etymology
Noun
postposition (plural postpositions)
- (grammar) A word that has the same purpose as a preposition but comes after the noun.
- The act of placing after, or the state of being placed after.
- 1643, Joseph Mede, Daniel's Weeks:
- the postposition of the nominative case to the verb
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(grammar) words that come after the noun
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Verb
postposition (third-person singular simple present postpositions, present participle postpositioning, simple past and past participle postpositioned)
- (grammar) To be placed after a the word that it modifies.
- 2020, Shannon Dubenion-Smith, “A typology of non-clausal postpositioning in German dialects”, in Janet Zhiqun Xing, editor, A Typological Approach to Grammaticalization and Lexicalization: East Meets West (Trends in Linguistics; 327), Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, , →ISBN, page 245:
- Nonetheless, PPs in my dataset not only make up the bulk of the non-clausal postpositionings, but they are also postpositioned at a relatively high rate, particularly in comparison to adverbs, the second most frequent form.
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Finnish
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postposition
French
Pronunciation
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postposition f (plural postpositions)
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Further reading
- “postposition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.