<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">But this prepositional usage could also be a dialectal usage of some group/region, in which the preposition 'behind' has the suggested meaning <tt>"<span class="def">controlling or responsible for (an event or
plan)". In this case, it would mean '</span></tt>I am sorry they lost their daddy because of what happened.'<br><br>E. Bashir<br><br>--- On <b>Sat, 5/29/10, Ken Litkowski <i><ken@clres.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Ken Litkowski <ken@clres.com><br>Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] adverbial 'behind'<br>To: "Jim Fidelholtz" <fidelholtz@gmail.com><br>Cc: Corpora@uib.no<br>Date: Saturday, May 29, 2010, 12:38 PM<br><br><div id="yiv119036746">
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<tt>I'd agree with Jim. At the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.clres.com/cgi-bin/onlineTPP/find_prep.cgi">preposition
project web page</a>, the applicable definition would, IMHO, be "<span class="def">controlling or responsible for (an event or plan)". Since
it is common to have a phrase like "I left my daughter behind", the
quote is somewhat poor English and tends to evoke this adverbial sense.
It's something of a garden path sentence. Since "behind" doesn't go
well with "lost", you have to do a double take and then choose the
preposition interpretation.<br>
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Ken<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Hi, Marc,
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<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>
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<div>Jim<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Marc FRYD <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:marc.fryd@univ-poitiers.fr" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=marc.fryd@univ-poitiers.fr">marc.fryd@univ-poitiers.fr</a>></span>
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<div><font size="-1"><big><big>Hi
everyone,<br>
<br>
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>
<br>
Best,<br>
Marc<br>
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