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postpositionings

postpositionings is the plural of postpositioning.

Meaning of postpositioning

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...

Questions about postpositionings

What is postpositionings the plural of?
Postpositionings is the plural of postpositioning.

Words near postpositionings in the dictionary

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

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