Re: ANADEWISM: Natlangs that do comparison with true verbs?
| From: | caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, November 9, 2004, 0:18 |
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--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Roger Mills <rfmilly@M...> wrote:
Rene Uittenbogaard wrote:
>BTW, is there a general term for "prepositional constructs"
>like "with respect to"? I usually refer to them as "compound
>prepositions", but what is the official terminology?
>>I'm not sure there is an official term; both of your proposals make
>>sense.
The official term is complex preposition (David Crystal, "A
Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, p. 275).