Re: TAN: new words [was: RE: LONG: Latest Wenetaic Stuff]

Nik Taylor wrote:

> 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.
I wouldn't call "up" in such a sentence as "run a bill up" a regular
ol' preposition. Rather, it operates more as a particle, or perhaps
(in a slightly weirder analysis) an intransitive preposition.