ambiposition

English

Etymology

From ambi- +‎ position.

Noun

ambiposition (plural ambipositions)

  1. (linguistics) An adposition that can occur either before or after its complement.
    • 1981, Linguistic Typology‎[1], page 404:
      The ascribing of postpositions to Indo-European is not well founded. The elements concerned may have been ambipositions.

Hypernyms

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.