| VERB | contact | postpose | place after another constituent in the sentence |
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| Meaning | place after another constituent in the sentence. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "Japanese postposes the adpositions, whereas English preposes them" | |
| Broader | put, set, place, pose, position, lay | Put into a certain place or abstract location |
| Nouns | postposition | (linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element after another (as placing a modifier after the word that it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix after the base to which it is attached) |
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