on account of clause

[Arnold Zwicky]

On Oct 25, 2011, at 5:52 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>
> Yes, you actually had one example that had both "of" and "that". So that
> makes for a full four variants "on account [of] [that]" with each
> bracketed term giving a binary choice.

well, i looked at two structural variants, "on account of" + finite clause, either "that:-marked or unmarked.  i have many examples of both, not just one, and you can google up tons of them.

arnold

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