POSTPOSE

Pronunciation (US):

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does postpose mean? 

• POSTPOSE (verb)
  The verb POSTPOSE has 1 sense:

1. place after another constituent in the sentence

  Familiarity information: POSTPOSE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POSTPOSE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they postpose    ... he / she / it postposes   
Past simple: postposed   
Past participle: postposed   
-ing form: postposing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Place after another constituent in the sentence

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

Japanese postposes the adpositions, whereas English preposes them

Hypernyms (to "postpose" is one way to...):

lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

postposition ((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))