[Lingtyp] adverb 'when' used as prepositiom

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

> On Jul 1, 2024, at 11:21 PM, Nigel Vincent <nigel.vincent at MANCHESTER.AC.UK> wrote:
> 
> If you want to extend the discussion beyond French, ....


I was specifically asking about similar developments in other language varieties -- that's why I came to LINGTYP -- so your Italian examples are most welcome.

And now I should add *English*, in the development of the (still nonstandard) "because NOUN" construction (a use of the subordinator "because" as a preposition ("We had to go the long way around, because bridge accidents"), whose recent development (apparently from a sarcastic usage) was been fairly carefully traced in a Grammar Girl (Mignon Fogarty) podcast/column by Neal Whitman.

Arnold