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ambiposition

ambiposition noun: an adposition that can occur either before or after its complement.

Noun

ambiposition (plural ambipositions)

  1. An adposition that can occur either before or after its complement.
    • The ascribing of postpositions to Indo-European is not well founded. The elements concerned may have been ambipositions.1981, Linguistic Typology, page 404

Forms of ambiposition

pluralambipositions

Origin of ambiposition

From ambi- + position.

Words formed from ambiposition

Questions about ambiposition

What does ambiposition mean?
Ambiposition means an adposition that can occur either before or after its complement.
What part of speech is ambiposition?
Ambiposition is a noun.
What is the plural of ambiposition?
The plural of ambiposition is ambipositions.

Words near ambiposition in the dictionary

  1. ambiphilic
  2. ambiphilicity
  3. ambipolar
  4. ambipolarities
  5. ambipolarity
  6. ambiposition
  7. ambipositional
  8. ambipositions
  9. ambiquitous
  10. ambira
  11. ambiras

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