Definition of "postposition"

postposition

noun
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.
  Quotations
  the postposition of the nominative case to the verb
  1643, Joseph Mede, Daniel's Weeks
verb
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.
  Quotations
  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.
  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, page 245

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