postposition
A word that has the same purpose as a preposition but comes after the noun.
Noun
- 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.
- the postposition of the nominative case to the verb - 1643, Joseph Mede, Daniel's Weeks:
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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.
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- To be placed after a the word that it modifies.
- 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...