On May 14, 2008, at 6:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
makes me wonder if you'll say anything about prepositions in
ancestors of English -- like Latin and Greek,
both of which had a word for "preposition"
Ah, but (1) I don't know the ancestors well enough, and (2) Latin and
Greek are not ancestors of English, which comes from the West Germanic
branch of the Germanic branch of Proto-Indo-European language. Latin
comes from the Italic branch and Greek from the Hellenic branch.
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Michael Brady
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