Timeline for 'Starting' in March [participle or preposition]
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| Mar 17, 2019 at 2:02 | vote | accept | JK2 | ||
| S Mar 17, 2019 at 2:01 | history | bounty ended | JK2 | ||
| S Mar 17, 2019 at 2:01 | history | notice removed | JK2 | ||
| Mar 16, 2019 at 3:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/1106752020118155264 | ||
| Mar 14, 2019 at 20:19 | answer | added | herisson | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 14, 2019 at 19:09 | history | edited | herisson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
fixed typo ("staring" > "starting")
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| Mar 14, 2019 at 18:51 | answer | added | TaliesinMerlin | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 14, 2019 at 17:27 | history | edited | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Removed presumption, there is no evidence of confusion
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| Mar 14, 2019 at 15:16 | history | edited | JK2 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 572 characters in body
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| Mar 14, 2019 at 14:50 | vote | accept | JK2 | ||
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| Mar 14, 2019 at 0:35 | comment | added | herisson | @Araucaria: "June 5th" is one of those NPs that can distribute like a PP, like "yesterday". That's not the kind of NP that I meant. Thanks for the examples! | |
| Mar 13, 2019 at 23:36 | comment | added | Araucaria - Him | @sumelic "Starting June 5th, the government will mo longer...". Also consider inspite of, according to, owing to, out of, next to, away from, together with, due to, apart from, prior to | |
| Mar 13, 2019 at 20:49 | answer | added | Karlomanio | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 13, 2019 at 12:09 | comment | added | herisson | It seems that "starting" in this kind of context has to take a PP as its complement, and can't take an NP complement. Are there (other) prepositions that behave like that? All of the (other) -ing prepositions that I can think of, like during, can take NP complements. | |
| Mar 13, 2019 at 8:11 | answer | added | ZXX | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 12, 2019 at 1:36 | comment | added | JK2 | @JohnLawler Thanks for the comment. I can see where you're coming from. But I think different grammars have decided how to treat the 'starting', and I want to know the answer(s) in at least some modern grammar(s). | |
| Mar 11, 2019 at 17:29 | comment | added | John Lawler | The question is roughly sociolinguistic: how many speakers in the community parse starting as a preposition, and how many still parse it as a participle? It's gonna be divided; that's why it's a question. With because there's no problem; it's slid from being a predicate NP to a conjunction and now a preposition. That's one way to go; starting or beginning are on a somewhat different slippery slope. If you require a sharp dividing line, you're out of luck. Like isoglosses, category boundaries are fuzzy and don't all run in the same direction. | |
| S Mar 11, 2019 at 1:55 | history | bounty started | JK2 | ||
| S Mar 11, 2019 at 1:55 | history | notice added | JK2 | Authoritative reference needed | |
| Mar 4, 2019 at 0:48 | comment | added | JK2 | @Araucaria Thanks for viewing it as a proper question :) | |
| Mar 3, 2019 at 20:03 | comment | added | Araucaria - Him | Let me fix that for you, +1. Some swr junkie with a distaste for a proper linguistics question, no doubt. | |
| Mar 3, 2019 at 7:00 | comment | added | JK2 | At least tell me why you're voting it down just so I can improve my question, will you? | |
| Mar 3, 2019 at 3:02 | history | edited | JK2 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
edited title
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| Mar 3, 2019 at 2:22 | history | asked | JK2 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |