<div dir="ltr">Hi<br>Well, it looks like a preposition with a completive and whole phrase working as adjunct.<br>Regards<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Jim Fidelholtz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fidelholtz@gmail.com">fidelholtz@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Hi, Marc,<div><br></div><div>My initial reaction to your question was 'what adverb?', ie, that it is a preposition. With a bit more reflection, I'm a bit more convinced that it's more of a preposition than an adverb. Cf. </div>
<div> They lost their daddy behind the barn. (or even: after the event, where I would interpret 'after' here as a preposition). Actually, such examples seem to me to point out the fuzziness of grammatical categories (*especially* where adverbs are concerned, and cf. also 'discourse markers', which in their historical development seem to progress syntactically in many cases towards adverb-like behavior).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Jim<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Marc FRYD <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marc.fryd@univ-poitiers.fr" target="_blank">marc.fryd@univ-poitiers.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<font size="-1"><big><big>Hi everyone,<br>
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In the second episode of "The Wire," one of the characters says the
following:<br>
"[I am] sorry they lost their daddy behind what happened". This is in
reference to some kids losing their father after he was shot.<br>
Is anyone familiar with this particular usage of 'behind'?<br>
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Best,<br>
Marc<br>
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