[lit-ideas] Churchill's Postposition
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 20:06:44 EDT
In a message dated 9/5/2004 9:36:17 PM Eastern Standard Time,
JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx writes:
It sounds icky when you put those place words at the end of sentences where
they don't belong at.
Good.
Note that strictly, we are talking _postposition_ here, though.
(The subject line is a ref. to R. Paul's quote from Churchill on
'preposition').
Cheers,
JL
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From the OED
'postposition'.
A particle or relational word placed after another word, usually as an
enclitic; esp. a word having the function of a preposition, which follows
instead
of preceding its object, as L. tenus, versus, and Eng. -ward(s, as in
home-wards.
1846 Proc. Philol. Soc. III. 9
In some classes of languages the whole process of formation is carried on by
means of postpositions, generally of a known and determinate signification.
1863 BATES Nat. Amazon x. (1864) 316
The feature..of placing the preposition after the The making it, in fact, a
it, in fact, a thus: He is come the village from.
1881 Academy 16 Apr. 283
The case-forms in Turkish may be regarded..as parts of nouns or rather as
postpositions.
1925 GRATTAN & GURREY Our Living Lang. I. xiii. 83
Look at the word at in the following sentences:..(d) These are the remarks
they laughed at... We shall therefore avoid confusion of thought if we call it
[sc. â??atâ??] a Postposition.
1976 J. S. GRUBER Lexical Struct. Syntax & Semantics II. iii. 343
In Japanese, there are some pieces of evidence..that postpositions,
quantifiers, and other things which manifest left-branching..actually form one
word.
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