ambiposition
English
Etymology
ambi- + position
Noun
ambiposition (plural ambipositions)
- (linguistics) An adposition that can occur either before or after its complement.
- 1981, Linguistic Typology, page 404:
- The ascribing of postpositions to Indo-European is not well founded. The elements concerned may have been ambipositions.
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Hypernyms
- adposition
- word
- part of speech
Hyponyms
- preposition
- postposition
Derived terms
- ambipositional
Translations
adposition that can occur before or after its complement
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