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A-Z 925ReferencesphoneticsPost-Bloomfieldian linguistics Americanstructuralism, also distributionalismpost-dorsaldorsalpost-dorsal velararticulationposteriority [Lat. posterior ‘later’]Temporal relationship in complex sentences between several actions: the action describedin the dependent clause occurs after the action of the main clause: They kept calling himuntil he finally heard them. ( sequence of tenses)postpositionadpositionpotential [Lat. potentialis from potentia‘dynamics; state of that which is not yet fullyrealized’]Verbal mood which characterizes an action as possible or probable. The Indo-Europeanlan-guages have no separate paradigm for this mood, using mainly the subjunctive toexpress it, e.g. the Latin subjunctive existimem ‘I would suspect.’