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ambiposition

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From ambi- +‎ position.

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ambiposition (plural ambipositions)

  1. (linguistics) An adposition that can occur either before or after its complement.
    • 1981, Linguistic Typology[1], page 404:
      The ascribing of postpositions to Indo-European is not well founded. The elements concerned may have been ambipositions.

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