Sunday, October 19, 2014

Detail #109: A Preposition Trick

Mark focus or topic marking for preposition phrases by reduplication of the preposition in sentence-initial position:

in I told you he's in London!
with he does his job with pride. 
Obviously this benefits from a language with case marking, so that nouns that happen to follow the reduplicated preposition are not mistakenly parsed as complements - or at least that the likelihood for such misparsing is reduced.

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