because info

[Ben Zimmer]

On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
>
[...]
> Note that the recent coverage has followed Neal by calling "because" a
> preposition. I refrained from calling it that in the WOTY press
> release, and now Gretchen McCulloch provides an extensive argument
> against treating the new "because" as a preposition:
>
> http://allthingslinguistic.com/post/72252671648/why-the-new-because-isnt-a-preposition-but-is

For more on matters syntactic, see the Language Log post by Geoff
Pullum, who argues that "because" should have been considered a
preposition all along:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=9494

--bgz

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