Here is a sentence about Antony in ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA in Egypt:  "While
he is there, he learns to fish for other things than fish."
 
How would people parse  or diagram the prepositional phrase at the end of
the sentence -- "for other things than fish"?
 
I see two possibilities:
 
(1)  "other" modifies "things," and "than" conjoins "things" and "fish"
as a pair of objects of the preposition "for."
 
(2  "other than" should be seen as a two-word conjunction joining
"things" and "fish."  In this sense it functions as "besides," which
serves as a conjunctions sometimes.
 
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