postpositioning

English

Verb

postpositioning

  1. present participle and gerund of postposition

Noun

postpositioning (plural postpositionings)

  1. (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, →DOI, →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.
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