NOUN
- (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)
How To Use postposition In A Sentence
- I agree that some of the words used might have been simple postpositions like '*-pi', while the others fully-fledged declensional cases. Grammar of Etrusco-Lemnian nouns
- A switch within the prepositional phrase should be ruled out because English has prepositions and Panjabi postpositions.
- Can anyone explain to me why "ago" is an adverb rather than a postposition? On postpositions
- 'For the good Larth' would be more competently translated into Etruscan as either *Larθus mlac (genitive of giving) or *Larθe-ri mlac (locative with postposition -ri 'for'). A little note on Etruscan adjectives and case agreement
- Paonese was of that type known as "polysynthetic," with root words taking on prefixes, affixes and postpositions to extend their meaning. The Languages of Pao
- 'For the good Larth' would be more competently translated into Etruscan as either *Larθus mlac (genitive of giving) or *Larθe-ri mlac (locative with postposition -ri 'for'). A little note on Etruscan adjectives and case agreement
- Ago is also sometimes called a postposition, because it's obligatory for it to follow the noun phrase. On postpositions
- In a postpositional language, people would say 'the house in' and not 'in the house'. On postpositions
- I would assert that "for" is the most precise value for -ri, that is, a postposition specifically identifying someone or something that benefits from a specified action. Liber Linteus and religious formulae, part 1
- So I call it a directive case and I identify tra not as an "ablative postposition" as some claim but as a directive postposition borrowed from an Italic language cf. Ipa ama hen