What's the difference between circumposition and postposition?

Circumposition


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of placing in a circle, or round about, or the state of being so placed.

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Postposition


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of placing after, or the state of being placed after.
  • (n.) A word or particle placed after, or at the end of, another word; -- distinguished from preposition.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The acquisition of grammatical relations from four languages is compared: (1) the definite accusative suffix and pragmatically motivated word order of Turkish; (2) Kaluli verb agreement, case and focus marking postpositions, and pragmatically motivated word order; (3) Hungarian definite and indefinite verb conjunction; and (4) Italian participial agreement and anaphoric, accusative case pronouns.
  • (2) No unsuspected abnormalities or underlying diseases leading to the cancellation or postposition of surgery were found.
  • (3) Sequence of information was important, however, and it is suggested that the effect can be explained by better opportunities for integration for preposition versus postposition instructions.
  • (4) The sequential nature of substitution errors was further analyzed by tallying and classifying errors as anticipatory (prepositioning), reiterative (postpositioning), or metathesis.

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