Re: Syntactic Differentiation of Adverbial vs. Adjectival Adpositions
| From: | Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 9, 2008, 16:23 |
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On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 7:11 AM, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
> Jim Henry writes:
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>>>> There are natlangs with mixed adpositional systems, aren't there?
>> Finnish apparently is one such:
> Would you count 'ago' in English as a postposition?
That's my inclination, but I'm not strongly attached
to that theory; I'm aware that some people analyze
it as an adverb. Anyway, I use "ago" phrases
as an example when explaining the "postpositional"
card to new Glossotechnia players.
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Jim Henry
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