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postposition|pəʊstpəˈzɪʃən|
[n. of action f. L. postpōnĕre, postposit-: so F. postposition (Littré); but in sense 3, after preposition, with post- in place of pre-.]
†1. The action of postponing; postponement; delay. Sc. Obs. rare— 1.
1546Aberdeen Regr. (1844) I. 229 The committer of sic recent crimes of bluid wes instantly, but [= without] postposition, causit ansuir for his offensis.
2. The action of placing after; the condition or fact of being so placed.
a1638Mede Daniel's Weeks (1642) 36 Nor is the Postposition of the Nominative case to the verb against the use of the tongue. 1869Farrar Fam. Speech ii. (1873) 71 Its grammar, except in the postposition of the article, closely resembles that of the other Romance languages. 1928H. Poutsma Gram. Late Mod. Eng. (ed. 2) I. i. viii. 488 The influence of Latin Grammars makes itself felt in the post-position of the adjective. 1930T. Sasaki On Lang. R. Bridges' Poetry i. i. 5 The postposition of two attributes joined together by means of ‘and’. 1975Amer. Speech 1971 XLVI. 226 Simple modifiers may appear in postposition in both English and German.
3. A particle or relational word placed after another word, usually as an enclitic; esp. a word having the function of a preposition, which follows instead of preceding its object, as L. tenus, versus, and Eng. -ward(s, as in home-wards.
1846Proc. Philol. Soc. III. 9 In some classes of languages the whole process of formation is carried on by means of postpositions, generally of a known and determinate signification. 1863Bates Nat. Amazon x. (1864) 316 The feature..of placing the preposition after the noun—making it, in fact, a ‘post-position’—thus: He is come the village from. 1881Academy 16 Apr. 283 The case-forms in Turkish may be regarded..as parts of nouns or rather as postpositions. 1925Grattan & Gurrey Our Living Lang. i. xiii. 83 Look at the word at in the following sentences:—..(d) These are the remarks they laughed at... We shall therefore avoid confusion of thought if we call it [sc. ‘at’] a Postposition. 1976J. S. Gruber Lexical Struct. Syntax & Semantics ii. iii. 343 In Japanese, there are some pieces of evidence..that postpositions, quantifiers, and other things which manifest left-branching..actually form one word.
4. Music. (See quot.)
1842Brande Dict. Sci. etc., Post position, in Music, retardations of the harmony, effected by placing discords upon the accented parts of a bar not prepared and resolved according to the rules for discords.
Hence postpoˈsitional a., of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a postposition: = next; also absol. as n.; postpoˈsitioning vbl. n.
1883Q. Rev. Jan. 186 [In Corean] There are..postpositional particles which, like the Japanese ‘teniwoha’, agglutinate themselves to nouns, verbs, and even sentences. 1968Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics XIV. i. 50 In this example we see that the head NP is identical to the object of the postpositional phrase. 1972Language XLVIII. 390, I am suggesting that the morphemes which appear as postpositionals are really functionally like verbs. 1974L. Todd Pidgins & Creoles ii. 15 In the Atlantic varieties plurality can be overtly marked by the postpositioning of dem immediately after the noun. 1975Language LI. 797 The putative specified subject can never surface, either as a subject or as a postpositional object. 1976J. S. Gruber Lexical Struct. Syntax & Semantics i. iii. 67 It appears that we always have the form with from to the left, but for in and on post-positioning is possible or obligatory. |