postposition
/pəʊs(t)pəˈzɪʃ(ə)n
/noun Grammar
A word or morpheme placed after the word it governs, for example -ward in homeward.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....
- A switch within the prepositional phrase should be ruled out because English has prepositions and Panjabi postpositions.
- 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.
Derivatives
postpositional
- In Japanese as in Carrier, it is possible to describe the cooking process more specifically by adding adverbs and postpositional phrases, e.g. ‘gently’ or ‘in a frying pan’, but the number of basic verbs is limited.
- Korean is a subject-object-verb language, for example, and has a rich system of postpositional case markers.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from preposition, by substitution of the prefix post- for pre-.
- chapter
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 7
- chapter and verse
- chapter book
- chapter house
- Chapultepec
- char
- charabanc
- characin
- character
- character-act
- character acting
- character actor
- character actress
- character arc
- character assassin
- character assassination
- character-based
- character-building
- character code
- character comedian
- character dance
- character dancer