Timeline for What is the purpose of repeating prepositions?
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| Jul 2, 2016 at 1:55 | vote | accept | Nathaniel is protesting | ||
| Jun 28, 2016 at 4:42 | answer | added | Joel Derfner | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 27, 2016 at 14:37 | comment | added | Joonas Ilmavirta♦ | Often a prefix changes the tone of the verb in a different way than the preposition suggests. For example, invenire aliquid is very different from venire in aliquid. Therefore the preposition and the prefix contribute to the meaning in different ways. In your examples this difference seems slight, though; the repetition is just for emphasis and redundancy. | |
| Jun 27, 2016 at 13:47 | history | asked | Nathaniel is protesting | CC BY-SA 3.0 |