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

From:Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...>
Date:Monday, August 18, 2008, 19:04
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Dana Nutter <li_sasxsek@...> wrote:
>> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Jim Henry
>> in contrast to external tools and materials. I've recently >> experimented >> with deriving another instrumental postp. for using materials >> that get used up during a task as opposed to tools that >> typically continue to be usable for future tasks, but I'm not
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> The idea of something for materials that diminish or > disintegrate in the process is kind of interesting. Something > like "my car runs *on* gasoline" where "on" would be some > special word like "burning up".
Or more generally "consuming". -- Jim Henry http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/

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