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POSTPOSITION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element after another (as placing a modifier after the word that it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix after the base to which it is attached)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("postposition" is a kind of...):
place; position (an item on a list or in a sequence)
Domain category:
linguistics (the scientific study of language)
Derivation:
postpose (place after another constituent in the sentence)
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