Re: THEORY: Adpositional Heads
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 10, 2003, 20:23 |
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Rob Haden wrote:
> It seems to me that the origin of PPs is easier to discern in (originally)
> left-branching languages, such as Finnish. Especially in Finnish, you can
> see that postpositions were originally nouns, since the objects of
> postpositions generally take the genitive. So, where in English you would
> have "inside the house," in a more left-branching language you would have
> something like *"house's inside".
Even in Engish, you can see the origin with "inside" < "in the side of"
or forms like "concerning" which functions as a preposition, but is
derived from a verb form.
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