Marshall,

Thank you for your response.  I think the adjective "general" as in "attorney general," that was subject of a list query last week, would fill the bill.  

The point of calling the prepositions "adpositions" was presumably the existence (even in English) of such one-off forms that call for their own extra-ordinary positioning. I was questioning the analysis, but it is possible that there is change in the language underway or idioms left as a relicts of earlier grammars. 

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Bruce,

Isn't there a single word adjective that follows the word it modifies? "Galore"?

Are there others?

I thought "galore" might be a French word that retained the position in French, but apparently it's not.

Marshall

Marshall

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From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bruce Despain
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Subject: Adpositions in English

I read in a recent introduction to syntax that English has at least one "preposition" that follows its object.  The example given was "ago" as in "three weeks ago."  I have been inclined to take this as a temporal adverb with a degree modification quite common with adverbs.  It thus serves as an adverbial phrase like many prepositional phrases.  The phrase "three weeks before" seems to imply "three weeks before the time under discussion."  This does not seem to make "before" a post-posed preposition.  I can see that if it did, we might have an argument for "ago" being post-posed.  Has anyone on list seen this sort of analysis?  

Bruce



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