postpositioning
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]postpositioning
- present participle and gerund of postposition
Noun
[edit]postpositioning (plural postpositionings)
- (grammar) An instance where a modifier appears after the noun it modifies.
- 2020, Shannon Dubenion-Smith, “A typology of non-clausal postpositioning in German dialects”, in Janet Zhiqun Xing, editor, A Typological Approach to Grammaticalization and Lexicalization: East Meets West (Trends in Linguistics; 327), Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, , →ISBN, page 245:
- Nonetheless, PPs in my dataset not only make up the bulk of the non-clausal postpositionings, but they are also postpositioned at a relatively high rate, particularly in comparison to adverbs, the second most frequent form.