Re: all possible cases ;-)
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 17, 2001, 5:34 |
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Josh Roth wrote:
> Hmmm ... why are you considering "under the care of" a preposition? I mean
> all languages have their little idiosyncracies ... some also have a single
> preposition for "at the house of," but some languages clearly don't.
Well, it's conceivable that a language could make that a preposition.
Japanese, for instance, tends to use a lot of prepositional phrases
where we have single prepositions, like _no naka ni_ for "in", literally
something like "In the interior of". Altho, to be honest, I would be a
bit surprised if there were a language that had a single apposition for
"under the care of", but, you never know. :-)
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