Re: Dangling prepositions and phrasal verbs.

En réponse à David Barrow :


>Since the adverb and the preposition are independent words in their own
>right wouldn't words like 'hierop' 'damit' 'thereby' more accurately be
>described as compound words and the two words are joined rather than one
>suffixed or the other prefixed.
I don't think you can put "damit" among them, since the form "da-", AFAIK, 
cannot appear alone. For the rest, it isn't wrong. I was using "suffixed" 
rather loosely, to describe the fact that the two parts ended up as a 
single phonological word, and that the preposition was put *after* the adverb.

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang. 

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