Re: CHAT: New Member With Questions
| From: | Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 16, 2001, 13:08 |
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On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Tristan Alexander McLeay wrote:
> >prepositions ... "particles"
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> What is the difference between prepositions and particles?
> And are they really prepositions in English, given that they sometimes go
> after what they modify (like in 'where do you come from?')?
Greetings!
"Particles" really does seem to be a catchall term. I do know it's used
in Korean (and in Japanese). The postpositions seem to be lumped into
the particle category in Korean grammars (for English speakers; I'm not
sure what a Korean grammar for Koreans looks like) because they behave
similarly (i.e. goes after the phrase it modifies). However, there are
non-postposition particles, such as the posessive, topic, subject,
object, and indirect particles.
(I suppose Japanese might really be a more familiar example to most
people, but I'm slowly teaching myself the grammar and am not comfortable
enough with details to say anything about it yet.)
YHL
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