postposition meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

postposition

noun

UK /ˌpəʊstpəˈzɪʃən/ · US /ˌpoʊstpəˈzɪʃən/

Etymology From post- + position.

Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences 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 verb1643, Joseph Mede, Daniel's Weeks:

verb

Etymology From post- + position.

Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences 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 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, →DOI, →ISBN, page 245: