Re: THEORY: What, Besides Verbs, Can Take Two Or More Arguments?

Hello, Doug.

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Doug Dee <AmateurLinguist@A...> wrote:
> In a message dated 8/2/2005 2:44:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> tomhchappell@Y... writes:
> >What about English words like "than" and "as"?
> > What lexical category do they belong to?
>
> They are traditionally considered conjunctions.
> (Now some real linguist will come along
> and tell me that tradition is wrong.)
> "Than" is traditionally considered
> to take a clause as its argument.
> "New york is bigger than Boston"
> is said to be reduced from
> "New York is bigger than Boston is big."
Thanks, Doug. That's helpful.

Does that mean "than" has two clausal arguments?
Is it a co-ordinating conjunction?

Tom H.C. in MI