Timeline for How is this structure formed? A case of 'inverted adjective'?
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| Dec 12, 2018 at 17:04 | vote | accept | Flonne | ||
| Dec 9, 2018 at 16:58 | comment | added | Gary Botnovcan | But, @Karl, that question isn't about whether either of those labels is any good. It's about how the words in those identified groups differ, or whether there even is a difference. | |
| Dec 8, 2018 at 16:30 | comment | added | KarlG | @GaryBotnovcan: I didn’t answer your question because the notion of an intransitive preposition is an oxymoron to me, especially since many prepositions are etymologically transitive adverbs or prepositional phrases themselves, like in/out - side. I simply don't find that terminology particularly helpful. | |
| Dec 8, 2018 at 16:25 | comment | added | Flonne | @KarlG thanks for the heads-up. I'll look into it after finishing the other one first. | |
| Dec 8, 2018 at 16:24 | comment | added | Flonne | @GaryBotnovcan Great find! I think I will read it for a while and let it seep through my mind :). | |
| Dec 8, 2018 at 16:20 | comment | added | KarlG | Turns out alone is different: contracted from Middle English all ane, ‘all/wholly one’. Apart is directly from Fr., now à part, while in ablaze, adrift, etc. the a is a reduction of on. You can look up any of these postpositive adjectives beginning with a at: etymonline.com | |
| Dec 8, 2018 at 16:19 | comment | added | Gary Botnovcan | I happen to have an open question on that very topic, inspired by the accepted answer to another question on this site. | |
| Dec 8, 2018 at 15:56 | history | edited | Flonne |
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| Dec 8, 2018 at 15:53 | comment | added | Flonne | @KarlG Do you have some resources to support your statements? This prepositional phrases, can you elaborate more? | |
| Dec 8, 2018 at 15:52 | answer | added | Gary Botnovcan | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 8, 2018 at 15:10 | comment | added | KarlG | The comma is in the wrong place. The phrase is similar or close to, which is a simple matter of ellipsis: similar [to] or close to. Adjectives such as alone or apart, which must follow the noun/pronoun, are really truncated prepositional phrases. | |
| Dec 8, 2018 at 14:28 | history | asked | Flonne | CC BY-SA 4.0 |