Re: Derived adpositions (< Linguistic term for ease of changing word-class)
| From: | R A Brown <ray@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, August 20, 2008, 12:48 |
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ROGER MILLS wrote:
> 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?????
>
"Later formations include ...... _néan(t)moins_ (a rendering of
NIHILOMINUS) ..."
[Alfred Ewert, "The French Language", 1983, London, Faber & Faber]
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