English

Noun

ambiposition ‎(plural ambipositions)

1. (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.

Hyponyms

• preposition
• postposition

Hypernyms

• adposition
  • word
  • part of speech

Derived terms

• ambipositional

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