Re: Adpositions gaining new uses

> "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:
> "I want on your shoulders" sounds like perfectly good English to
> me. No need to posit a German influence for that one.
Can a prepositional phrase be the object of a verb?  There just has to
be an ellipsis of a verb.

My interpretation of the sentence, punctuation aside, is: I want On
Your Shoulders.  I do not want Chanel No. 5.

Charlie