Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of postposition
nounpostpositioning (plural postpositionings)
plural postpositionings
- grammarAn instance where a modifier appears after the noun it modifies.
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.
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
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