ambiposition

English

Etymology

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

• adposition
  • word
  • part of speech

Hyponyms

• preposition
• postposition

Derived terms

• ambipositional

Translations

adposition that can occur before or after its complement

• German: Ambiposition f