Re: Cases and Prepositions (amongst others)

Hi, all,

Idiomatically, almost anything could mean almost anything.

"from suddenly" could mean "less suddenly," & "towards quickly" could mean
"more quickly."

Hey, I think I'll use this construction in my latest conlang!

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Raymond Brown" <ray.brown@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 1:10 PM
Subject: Re: Cases and Prepositions (amongst others)


> 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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