Re: Implied prepositions

>Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> wrote:
>It occured to me that a conlang could almost be made
>preposition-free if the verbs absorbed the role
>usually played by prepositions. For example, in
>English we can say "go into" or we can say "enter"
>which has a built-in, or implied prepositional
>meaning. Likewise "go out of" can be "exit", or
>"leave" and "go after" can be "pursue".
Senjecas uses postpositions but the principle is the same.  From the
Senjecas grammar:

Rule #212. The construction consisting of an intransitive verb plus
a prepositional phrase, e.g., "he went with his friends," is not
used in Senjecas as it is in many modern languages.  The idea is
expressed by a transitive verb and its direct object, e.g., "he
accompanied his friends."

I have not yet encountered every single situation, so I don't know
how faithful I can be to this rule, but I am trying.

Charlie