[Ads-l] Prepositioning

[Barbara Need]

 From Barbara Partee (on FB and LanguageLog):

Linguist reads the paper: First sentence in Friedman's column begins  
"Let’s see, America is prepositioning battle tanks …" and before I got  
to the battle tanks I was surprised and wondering how 'preposition'  
could be used as a verb and what it could mean. (I'm of course seeing  
the word that starts with 'prep', had to be garden-pathed before I  
backtracked and saw the verb pre-position.)

I won't be surprised if readers of this blog had a similar first parse  
of my header –  its occurrence in this blog will probably make that  
even more likely.

Thoughts?
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