Re: Comparison of sentences

>In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Lars Finsen <lars.finsen@...> wrote:
>The original English sentence is basically trying to compare an
>adverb (long-er) and relating it to a dependent clause. If your
>language can put a comparative marker on the adverb and a relative
>marker on the verb of the dependent clause, it should be able to
>handle it, I think.
That may work.

>Isn't "than" usually viewed as a conjuction, BTW? Not sure,
>English grammar is not my strong point.
The American Heritage Dictionary, in a Usage note, tells us
that "than" is usually construed as a conjunction, but adds that,
less formally, it is construed as a preposition which would take the
objective case.

Moreover, sometimes either a subjective or an objective pronoun may
be used.

However, PIE did not give me a conjunction for "than," so I went
with a postposition "in comparison to, compared with," which has led
to the problem I mentioned previously.  The verb "sôma," compare,
gives the postposition "sóma."