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postpositioned

postpositioned is the simple past and past participle of postposition.

Meaning of postposition

Verb

postposition (third-person singular simple present postpositions, present participle postpositioning, simple past and past participle postpositioned)

  1. 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...

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Questions about postpositioned

What is postpositioned the simple past and past participle of?
Postpositioned is the simple past and past participle of postposition.

Words near postpositioned in the dictionary

  1. postpositional
  2. postpositional phrase
  3. postpositional phrases
  4. postpositionally
  5. postpositionals
  6. postpositioned
  7. postpositioning
  8. postpositionings
  9. postpositions
  10. postpositive
  11. postpositive adjective

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