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postpositioning

postpositioning is the present participle and gerund 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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Noun

postpositioning (plural postpositionings)

  1. An instance where a modifier appears after the noun 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...

Forms of postpositioning

pluralpostpositionings

Questions about postpositioning

What does postpositioning mean?
Postpositioning means an instance where a modifier appears after the noun it modifies.
What is postpositioning the present participle and gerund of?
Postpositioning is the present participle and gerund of postposition.
What part of speech is postpositioning?
Postpositioning is a noun.
What is the plural of postpositioning?
The plural of postpositioning is postpositionings.

Words near postpositioning in the dictionary

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

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