NOUN
- (linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element after another (as placing a modifier after the word that it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix after the base to which it is attached)
How To Use postposition In A Sentence
- Any future contributions to this theme should focus on the notion of postposition, please. On postpositions
- It's quite different from English, too, in that it puts the verb at the end of the sentence and uses postpositions instead of prepositions.
- Etruscan is an agglutinative language however and so one sometimes finds more case endings attached to postpositions which are already attached to case endings! Grammar of Etrusco-Lemnian nouns
- This actuality of things is emphasized by the postposition of the color adjective, in accordance with normal, non-poetic usage: it excludes any metaphorical interpretation.
- Chinese is monosyllabic, Japanese is polysyllabic; Japanese verbs, adjectives and adverbs inflect, whereas they don't in Chinese; and Japanese has a system of postpositions that Chinese doesn't.
- Indeed it is hard to imagine a language with just 4 declensional cases and without pre- or postpositions in the same time. Grammar of Etrusco-Lemnian nouns
- Bayndor: "Indeed it is hard to imagine a language with just 4 declensional cases and without pre- or postpositions in the same time. Grammar of Etrusco-Lemnian nouns
- Chinese is monosyllabic, Japanese is polysyllabic; Japanese verbs, adjectives and adverbs inflect, whereas they don't in Chinese; and Japanese has a system of postpositions that Chinese doesn't.
- It's quite different from English, too, in that it puts the verb at the end of the sentence and uses postpositions instead of prepositions.
- The postposition 'long', too, is adverbial to me: "all day/night/week/month long" strikes me as an adverb of duration rather than a preposition... On postpositions
