Definition
A postposition is an adposition that occurs after its complement.
Examples
Japanese
In the following sentence, the words and oga, ni, are postpositions:
- John ga Mary ni hon o yatta
- John NOMINATIVE Mary DATIVE book ACCUSATIVE gave
- ‘John gave Mary a book.’
Sources 3
- Kuno 1973, 4-5
- Crystal 1980, 277
- Hartmann and Stork 1972, 181