Sally Caves wrote:
> What I was trying to do was justify Charles' remark that prepositions
> can have a shade of adverbial sense to them.
Thank you. I'm sure they (prepositions and a certain class
of adverbs) are very closely related.
> My original comment
> was that there's a certain ambiguity as to whether the preposition
> belongs to the verb it goes with or the object it goes with. Which
> is why it can be put at the end after the verb or at the beginning
> with the fronted locative:
That's exactly what I should have meant.
> Sally--bold moves from a non-linguist.
How many stories would ever get written
if heros were overly cautious?