Postposition

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Postposition \Post`po*si"tion\, n. [Cf. F. postposition. See
     {Postpone}.]
     1. The act of placing after, or the state of being placed
        after. "The postposition of the nominative case to the
        verb." --Mede.
        [1913 Webster]


  
     2. A word or particle placed after, or at the end of, another
        word; -- distinguished from preposition.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  postposition
       n : (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)