Re: TAN: new words [was: RE: LONG: Latest Wenetaic Stuff]
From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
Date: | Saturday, October 30, 1999, 1:34 |
Tom Wier wrote:
> Actually, English has a couple postpositions. "asunder" and "apart"
> both act as postpositions: "He broke it asunder", and "He broke
> it apart". German "entlang" and (I think) "entgegen" also operate
> along similar lines.
I dunno about that. I think that in those cases those are like the "up"
in "run up" (in the sense of "run a bill up"). I don't see any
postpositional relationship there.
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