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Preposition vs Ambiposition - What's the difference?

preposition | ambiposition | Hyponyms |

Preposition is a hyponym of ambiposition.


As nouns the difference between preposition and ambiposition

is that preposition is preposition while ambiposition is (linguistics) an adposition that can occur either before or after its complement.

preposition

English

(wikipedia preposition)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) praepositio'', from ''praeponere'' (to place before); ''prae'' (before) + ''ponere'' (to put, place); compare French ''''. (See position, and compare provost.) So called because it is usually placed before the word with which it is phrased, as in .

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (grammar) Any of a closed class of non-inflecting words typically employed to connect a noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival]] or [[adverb, adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.
  • *
    • And in (121) below, we see that when a wh-NP is used as the Object of a Preposition , the whole Prepositional Phrase can undergo WH MOVEMENT:
    (121) (a)      [To whom''] can I send this letter —?
    (121) (b)      [''About what''] are they quarrelling —?
    (121) (c)      [''In which book     ] did you read about it —?
  • (obsolete) A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.
  • * (rfdate),
    • He made a long preposition and oration.
    Hypernyms
    * adposition
    Coordinate terms
    * circumposition * postposition
    Derived terms
    * preposition of time * preposition of place * prepositional * prepositionally * prepositional phrase
    Related terms
    * prepose * prepositive

    See also

    * preverb

    Etymology 2

    From pre- + position

    Alternative forms

    * pre-position

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To place in a location before some other event occurs.
    • It is important to preposition the material before turning on the machine.
    English heteronyms ----

    ambiposition

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (linguistics) An adposition that can occur either before or after its complement
  • * {{quote-book, 1981, , Linguistic Typology, page=404 citation
    • , passage=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