(linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element after another (as placing a modifier after the word that it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix after the base to which it is attached)
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Examples of postposition
postposition
Yet other languages, such as Japanese, use a postposition system to determine the arguments of a clause.
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The word or other morpheme that corresponds to an English preposition occurs after its complement, hence the name postposition.
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A postposition can thus merge into the stem of a head noun, developing various forms depending on the phonological shape of the stem.
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Germanic, Romance, Celtic, Semitic, and auxiliary languages generally have a definite article, sometimes used as a postposition.
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The prepositions of the Spanish language function exclusively as such, therefore, the language does not use postposition constructions.
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- (linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element after another (as placing a modifier after the word that it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix after the base to which it is attached)
- In grammar, a preposition is a part of speech that introduces a prepositional phrase. For example, in the sentence "The cat sleeps on the sofa", the word "on" is a preposition, introducing the prepositional phrase "on the sofa". ...
- Any of various words in languages such as Hindi, Japanese and Finno-Ugric languages (Estonian, Finnish and Hungarian) which serve the same purpose as a preposition but come after the noun
- A word that marks the end of a modifying phrase.
- A postposition is an adposition placed after a noun. Japanese has several postpositions, but English has few postpositions.
