postpositionaladj.n.
/ˌpəʊs(t)pəˈzɪʃn̩(ə)l/, /ˌpəʊs(t)pəˈzɪʃən(ə)l/, U.S. /ˌpoʊs(t)pəˈzɪʃən(ə)l/, /ˌpoʊs(t)pəˈzɪʃn̩əl/ Grammar.
A. adj.
Of or relating to (a) postposition; spec. (of a language or its elements) characterized by postposition or postpositions; (of a word, particle, etc.) postpositive.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > morpheme > [adjective] > relating to affixes > suffixed or relating to suffixes
paragogical1607
paragogic1705
postpositive1712
terminational1765
desinential1818
postfixed1839
postpositional1850
suffixed1869
suffixal1874
postfixal1887
postfixial1893
suffixual1901
postmedial1958
the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic relations > [adjective] > placed after
postpositive1712
postposed1860
postpositional1968
1850 Jrnl. Indian Archipel. & Eastern Asia 4 467 The Burmese and the adjacent languages akin to it..pass decidedly into the postpositional class of languages.
1859 B. W. Dwight Mod. Philol. i. 18 Even prepositions are placed after, instead of before, the nouns in regimen with them, and are properly therefore postpositional in their character.
1883 Q. Rev. Jan. 186 [In Corean] There are..postpositional particles which, like the Japanese ‘teniwoha’, agglutinate themselves to nouns, verbs, and even sentences.
1911 Amer. Jrnl. Semitic Lang. & Lit. 27 328 Wherever the suffixes -ma, -za, -ba, -na occur, they are equivalent respectively to -mu, -zu, -bu, -ni, with postpositional force.
1968 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 14 i. 50 In this example we see that the head NP is identical to the object of the postpositional phrase.
1995 S. Romaine Lang. in Society ii. 59 Panjabi..is a postpositional language (i.e. one in which what correspond to prepositions in English actually occur after rather than before the nouns they modify).
B. n.
A postpositional word, element, particle, etc.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > other parts of speech > [noun] > post position
postposition1736
postpositive1846
postpositional1958
1958 Language 34 59 Exocentrics are: prepositionals, postpositionals, reciprocals and conjunctionals.
1972 Language 48 390 I am suggesting that the morphemes which appear as postpositionals are really functionally like verbs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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