Re: Cases and Prepositions (amongst others)
| From: | Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 21, 2000, 20:10 |
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At 6:05 pm -0400 20/6/00, Nik Taylor wrote:
>Nik Taylor wrote:
[....]
>Also, I'd like to say that I frequently forget that words like "here"
>and "now" are considered adverbs, when I asked the question, I was
>thinking of adverbs of manner, and I was trying to imagine how something
>like "towards quickly" or "from suddenly" could exist.
Well, yes, I guess preps. governing adverbds of manner are pretty unlikely.
As you say, what would they mean? (But I bet some conlang somwhere has
them :)
Ray.
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