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Postposition
a class of auxiliary words having the meaning of prepositions, but occurring postpositively, that is, after the words they govern. Postpositions are common in various languages, including the Finno-Ugric, Turkic, Mongolian, Caucasian, and Tunguso-Manchurian. Examples are seen in the Tatar tavlar arasïnda (“between the mountains”; arasïnda means “between”), the Chuvash shïv urla (“across the river”; urla means “across”), and the Hungarian a tábla mellett (“beside the board”; mellett means “beside”). Some postpositions may take a case ending, as can be seen by comparing the Zyrian pu vylyn (“on the tree”; locative case), pu vylyś (“away from the tree”; ablative case), and pu vylǝ (“onto the tree”; aditive case). In some instances, postpositions are also used as substantives and with an independent meaning, as in the Tatar ara (“space,” “interval”) and arasïnda (“between”) and the Udmurt vylyn (“on”) and vyl (“surface”). Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | Several composite words and postposition phrases have the same principle, but in this article they will be not treated as possessive phrases: first, they are not the same syntactic item as possessive phrase; second, they have different syntactic and grammatical functions, and constituents have other salient relationship than possession. The consequences: If a language distinguishes, within direct speech, between the reporting clause placed at the end and the reporting clause placed elsewhere such that one option allows the postposition of the subject and the other option does not allow it, then it is the reporting clause placed at the end that tends to allow the postposition of the subject and it is the reporting clause placed elsewhere that tends not to allow the postposition of the subject. Byline: Nicholas Godfrey KENTUCKY DERBY runner-up Bluegrass Cat is favourite to go one better in the Belmont Stakes after yesterday's postposition draw put him in box nine of 12. |
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