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Thread #143371   Message #3309231
Posted By: Joe_F
15-Feb-12 - 09:34 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Who says 'Can I come with?'
Subject: RE: Folklore: Who says 'Can I come with?'
It isn't part of my dialect. But it causes me to notice that there is a large overlap between prepositions & adverbs in English: "up", "down", "around", "about", "along", and many other can be either. The thing has ragged edges, as most things in language do: consider the cases of in(to) & out (of). Thus, it is rather an oddity, but not surprising, that in standard English "with" cannot be an adverb (one has to use "along" instead); but neither is it surprising that some dialects have filled in that hole.