Re: Syntactic Differentiation of Adverbial vs. Adjectival Adpositions

Hi!

Jim Henry writes:
>...
>>> There are natlangs with mixed adpositional systems, aren't there?
>
> Finnish apparently is one such:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_grammar#Postpositions_and_prepositions
Would you count 'ago' in English as a postposition?

In German, there are a few postpositions, too:

     wegen      des Hauses
     because_of the house
     ^^^^^^


     des Hauses wegen
     the house  because_of
                ^^^^^

     dem Vernehmen nach
     the hearing   by
                   ^^^^
     'according to reports'

But there are not many.

**Henrik

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