I think both AS and ALS count as conjunctions, perhaps with an implied
rest-of-clause, as in "he's as old as I (am)".  In revisionist analyses,
when the object is a pronoun instead of a clause, they should be
prepositions and take the objective in English: "he's as old as me".

On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Philip Newton <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 03:12, Scott Hlad <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Does anyone know of any language that has a nominative
> > preposition?
>
> Are you looking for natlangs, or also conlangs?
>
> And are you looking for cases where the nominative is always
> introduced by a preposition, or simply for prepositions that always
> take the nominative?
>
> If the latter (in both cases), then Mark Rosenfelder's Verdurian has a
> preposition _eta_ "about, concerning", which takes the nominative, for
> example.
>
> And German _als_ "as, in the position of, in the capacity of, qua" (as
> in "As your father, I suggest that you ...") takes the nominative:
> e.g. "als dein Vater" (as your father) or "als großer Liebhaber der
> Künste" (as a great connoisseur/amateur of the arts).
>
> As, for that matter, does English "as", at least in
> prescriptive/conservative dialects: "I am not as big as _he_".
>
> Though on second thoughts, neither of those always take the
> nominative; rather, they take the "appropriate" case (for example,
> accusative in cases such as "Ich sah ihn als _meinen Vater_ an" [I
> regarded him as my father] or "I have always loved you as much as
> _him_").
>
> Cheers,
> Philip
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> Philip Newton <[log in to unmask]>
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