Than

[Ed Keer]

--- "Arnold M. Zwicky" <zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU>
wrote:
> i have no problem with "the one who I am better
> than", but then i'm
> happy with prepositional "than", stranded
> prepositions, *and* fronted
> nominative "who".  your mileage might vary.
>
> arnold (zwicky at csli.stanford.edu)
>

Thanks Arnold, I figured you would have the skinny on
this. I too am happy with "the one who I am better
than".

I was entertaining an idea that you could analyze
"than" as always a conjunction, with the accusative
case of bare "subjects" accounted for by default case
along the lines of what I guess you have to say about:

Who wants ice cream?
Me

But as you point out the stranding pretty much knocks
that down.

Still, the pie-piped version sounds ungrammatical to
me, not merely "literary". Maybe I'm just too
illiterate.

Ed



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