Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The placing of a word or suffixed element after the word to which it is grammatically related.
- noun A word or element placed postpositionally, as a preposition placed after its object. For example, in the phrase these facts notwithstanding, notwithstanding is a postposition.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of postposing or placing after; the state of being put behind.
- noun In grammar, a word or particle placed after or at the end of a word: opposed to preposition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of placing after, or the state of being placed after.
- noun A word or particle placed after, or at the end of, another word; -- distinguished from
preposition .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun grammar 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. - noun The act of placing after, or the state of being placed after.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (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
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Ago is also sometimes called a postposition, because it's obligatory for it to follow the noun phrase.
On postpositions DC 2009
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Ago is also sometimes called a postposition, because it's obligatory for it to follow the noun phrase.
Archive 2009-04-01 DC 2009
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Any future contributions to this theme should focus on the notion of postposition, please.
On postpositions DC 2009
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I would assert that "for" is the most precise value for -ri, that is, a postposition specifically identifying someone or something that benefits from a specified action.
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I would assert that "for" is the most precise value for -ri, that is, a postposition specifically identifying someone or something that benefits from a specified action.
Archive 2007-10-01 2007
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[2] Bomhard/Kerns, The Nostratic macrofamily: A study in distant linguistic relationship (1994), p.161 (see link): Thus, in a consistent SOV language, an attributive adjective or a genitive precedes its 'head' noun, an adverb precedes its adjective or verb, a noun precedes its case ending or postposition, [...]
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'For the good Larth' would be more competently translated into Etruscan as either *Larθus mlac (genitive of giving) or *Larθe-ri mlac (locative with postposition -ri 'for').
A little note on Etruscan adjectives and case agreement 2010
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So I call it a directive case and I identify tra not as an "ablative postposition" as some claim but as a directive postposition borrowed from an Italic language cf.
Ipa ama hen 2010
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Can anyone explain to me why "ago" is an adverb rather than a postposition?
On postpositions DC 2009
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The postposition 'long', too, is adverbial to me: "all day/night/week/month long" strikes me as an adverb of duration rather than a preposition...
On postpositions DC 2009
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