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Postposition   Listen
Postposition

noun
1.
(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).





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"Postposition" Quotes from Famous Books



... used as suffixes to the words which they govern. When the noun to which they are suffixed has a double form, the postposition is added to ...
— The Mafulu - Mountain People of British New Guinea • Robert W. Williamson


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