Timeline for How common is the use of 'although' as a preposition rather than a conjunction?
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| Apr 6, 2018 at 9:16 | comment | added | Chuckk Hubbard | @EdwinAshworth You have mentioned this FANBOYS debunking enough times that I've managed to figure it out! I didn't mean to say anything about FANBOYS. I only find the idea kind of interesting of always writing out full clauses between all conjunctions. | |
| Apr 6, 2018 at 9:07 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | @Chuckk Hubbard If you look up 'FANBOYS' here, you will find an article debunking 'the myth of FANBOYS'. In particular, as CGEL spells out, they do not all behave the same way distributionally. However, joining two independent clauses with different subjects and predicates with say 'and' and expecting to be able to delete isn't on. 'John keeps cows; Jill grows maize.' | |
| Apr 6, 2018 at 5:28 | comment | added | Chuckk Hubbard | @EdwinAshworth That almost makes 'though' seem to fill the role of a coordinating conjunction, as in "small but good", aside from the fact that you still can't change the order to "But good, it is small." Still, you could probably theoretically replace every word joined by any coordinating conjunction with a clause, e.g. "The frog is fast, and the frog is slippery." How about "The long road that leads to your door will never disappear, and the winding road that leads to your door will never disappear." | |
| Feb 13, 2016 at 8:04 | vote | accept | user58319 | ||
| Feb 10, 2016 at 10:39 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | I've eventually found a relevant example in an authoritative work. Collins Spanish Dictionary has: though A. CONJ ... though small, it's good. It obviously treats this as an example of SUB + be deletion, and considers that sufficient to claim 'conjunction' as remaining the appropriate POS for 'though' in such deleted forms. @Professor Lawler would doubtless say 'What does giving it a label add to the argument, except heat?' | |
| Feb 9, 2016 at 21:37 | comment | added | user58319 | @EdwinAshworth: how do you distinguish between a word that can only be a preposition, as is 'without' in 'without waiting for an answer', and 'before' in 'before leaving' / 'before he left', where it can be either? or both?! | |
| Feb 8, 2016 at 14:17 | comment | added | TimR | With my glasses needing a new prescription, and following as it does the word ardent, that word did not enter my brain as lumper at first. | |
| Feb 8, 2016 at 14:15 | comment | added | TimR | Although is a subordinating conjunction introducing a concession clause there. | |
| Feb 8, 2016 at 12:55 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Not even the most ardent preposition-lumper would call this an example. | |
| Feb 8, 2016 at 8:45 | answer | added | user58319 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 8, 2016 at 8:41 | comment | added | WS2 | Well, it is certainly idiomatic in that and related senses. | |
| Feb 8, 2016 at 8:30 | history | asked | user58319 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |