单词 | postpositive |
释义 | postpositiveadj.n. Grammar. A. adj. Of, relating to, or characterized by postposition; (of a word, particle, etc.) placed after the item modified; suffixed, enclitic; (of an adjective) postmodifying. postpositive preposition n. (= postposition n. 2b) a word or particle, having the same function as a preposition, which follows its noun, as ‘he goes homewards’; Latin ‘domum versus’, German ‘meinetwegen’. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic relations > [adjective] > placed after postpositive1712 postposed1860 postpositional1968 the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > morpheme > [adjective] > relating to affixes > suffixed or relating to suffixes paragogical1607 paragogic1705 postpositive1712 terminational1765 desinential1818 postfixed1839 postpositional1850 suffixed1869 suffixal1874 postfixal1887 postfixial1893 suffixual1901 postmedial1958 1712 M. Maittaire Eng. Gram. 122 Others [sc. particles] are both Prepositive and Postpositive, which may or may not begin the clause. 1786 J. H. Tooke Επεα Πτεροεντα ix. 304 Grammarians were not ashamed to have a class of Postpositive Prepositives. 1845 Proc. Philol. Soc. 2 171 We..find in the Manchu itself a postpositive participle. 1845 J. Stoddart Gram. in Encycl. Metrop. (1847) I. 124/1 These and other examples of a like kind induced some authors to make a class of postpositive prepositions;..there are languages in which all the prepositions, if we may so speak, are postpositive. 1877 A. H. Sayce in Trans. Philol. Soc. 140 The older postpositive conjugation. 1936 Amer. Speech 11 363/2 A discussion of the postpositive use of adjectives in such groups as law ecclesiastical. 1951 Archivum Linguisticum 3 24 Post~positive adjectives are in fact common in ON. 1963 in Brown & Foote Early Eng. & Norse Stud. 134 An unusual postpositive use of the article, though with no suggestion of enclisis as in Scandinavian. 1994 Trans. Philol. Soc. 104 In any classical text it is possible to distinguish between a postpositive use of pronouns,..and an emphatic use. B. n. A postpositive particle or word. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > other parts of speech > [noun] > post position postposition1736 postpositive1846 postpositional1958 1846 Proc. Philol. Soc. (1848) 3 13 This adjective may again be declined with all the postpositives usually employed as signs of cases. 1875 Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 1874 11 In Sophocles, there are only 3 per cent. of separate words of this class..and 3 per cent. also of post-positives, making only 6 per cent. in all of unprepositional use. 1944 Language 20 26 It will be helpful to note that postpositives, whether enclitic or not, are commoner in Roumanian than in the other Romance languages. 1994 K. Dover Marginal Comment x. 73 ‘Postpositives’..cannot be preceded by pause but ‘gravitate’ to a place immediately after another word. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1712 |
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