| Lemma | preposition |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Whitney (1875) |
| Titolo | The Life and Growth of language |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | adverb (inglese) case-system (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | […] if we were to use different signs for all the shades of case-relation which we can recognize by analysis in our speech, we should have to multiply our list of prepositions many times. Prepositions, in our sense of the term, are of […] recent origin, created a separate part of speech by the swinging away of certain adverbs from apprehended relation to the verb, and their connection in idea with noun-cases which their addition to the verb had caused to be construed with it. |