postposition

See also: post position

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pós
Proto-Indo-European *-ti
Proto-Indo-European *pósti
Proto-Italic *posti
Old Latin poste
Latin post
English post-
English position
English postposition

    From post- + position.

    Pronunciation

    • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌpəʊstpəˈzɪʃən/
      • Audio (Southern England):(file)
    • (General American) IPA(key): /ˌpoʊstpəˈzɪʃən/
    • Rhymes: -ɪʃən
    • Hyphenation: post‧po‧si‧tion

    Noun

    postposition (plural postpositions)

    1. (grammar) A word that has the same purpose as a preposition but comes after the noun.
    2. 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

    Synonyms

    • postpositive preposition

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    Verb

    postposition (third-person singular simple present postpositions, present participle postpositioning, simple past and past participle postpositioned)

    1. (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, →DOI, →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.

    See also

    Finnish

    Noun

    postposition

    1. genitive singular of postpositio

    French

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /pɔst.po.zi.sjɔ̃/
    • Audio (France (Lyon)):(file)

    Noun

    postposition f (plural postpositions)

    1. (grammar) postposition

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