Postpose (Verb)
Meaning
Place after another constituent in the sentence; "Japanese postposes the adpositions, whereas English preposes them".
Classification
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
Examples
- In many agglutinative languages, case markers and other grammatical morphemes are postposed to the root word.
- Japanese postposes the adpositions, whereas English preposes them, as seen in 'Tokyo ni' versus 'to Tokyo'.
- Arabic postposes the possessive marker, so 'my car' would be 'the car-my'.
- Most Australian Aboriginal languages postpose the ergative marker to the noun or pronoun.
- In the phrase 'my friend' of the Japanese language, the adposition or particle marker is postposed to form 'watakushi no tomodachi'.