Corpora: Prepositions, subjunctions and conjunctions

From: j.m.b.johannessen@ilf.uio.no
Date: Thu Sep 14 2000 - 13:13:54 MET DST

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Some further distinctions between prepositions, subjunctions and conjunctions:

Prepositions typically are followed by an NP that is marked by accusative
case, which is marked in English on pronouns:
(i) He came with me

Conjunctions typically do not introduce a particular case marking:
(ii) He and I came with her.

(But there are dialects in which conjunctions actually do change the case
of the pronouns:
(iii) Him and me came with her)

The main difference between subjunctions and conjunctions in English is
that a subjunctive clause, being subordinate, can be moved around. This is
not the case with conjunct clauses:

        (iv) Mary left because Milly got angry
                Because Milly got angry, Mary left
        (v) Mary left and Milly got angry
                *And Milly got angry, Mary left

Janne Bondi Johannessen.

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