ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Postpositioning

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Postpositioning is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of postposition.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of postposition.

More Meanings

  1. (grammar) An instance where a modifier appears after the noun it modifies.

Example Sentences

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.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ergative, locative, fronting, prepositioning.

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