Re: Cases and Prepositions (amongst others)

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From: "Vasiliy Chernov" <bc_@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 8:28 AM
Subject: Re: Cases and Prepositions (amongst others)


> RE: adverbs vs. (pro)nouns
>
> Just think of words/phrases like _someplace_, _tomorrow_, _last week_...
>
> It seems that English has no clear boundary between adverbs and
> (pro)nouns for words referring to space and time.
>
> My 2¢.   Basilius
Yes. That seems a valid statement IMO. But then,
English has no clear boundary betweeen lots of
things. Boundaries are often set, not by the word
itself, but by articles, particles, context, etc.

One reason that Eng. headlines often end up with
double meanings.

Regards                                              LEO

Leo J. Moser