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Re: Derived adpositions (< Linguistic term for ease of changing word-class)

From:ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...>
Date:Monday, August 18, 2008, 21:00
Ray Brown wrote:
> > Eugene Oh wrote: > > > >> Perhaps "nonetheless", "notwithstanding", "nevertheless" were ahead of > >> their > >> time in descriptivity ;) > >> > > > > "nonetheless" looks to me suspiciously like a calque of Classical Latin > > "nihilominus" which, I guess, puts it way ahead of its time :) > >
Or French néaumoins IIRC?????

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R A Brown <ray@...>