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.

Hypernyms

adposition
- word
- part of speech

Hyponyms

Derived terms

ambipositional

Translations

adposition that can occur before or after its complement

German: Ambiposition f

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