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The interdiction is meaningless for English grammar (or style), having been carried over from Latin, where a preposition must accompany the word it is connected with syntactically and semantically; like the caveat concerning split infinitives, which cannot be split in Latin because, as in most other Indo-European languages, they are single words, unsplittable nuclei, unlike the atom,
Phrases, being more semantically complex than single words, are usually harder to translate.
In the CIDE the effort has been made to simplify such entries in limiting the number of senses dealt with by writing a few definitions--fifteen, in the case of take --that are intended to encompass semantically the basic range of meanings the editors deem to be required by typical users of the dictionary.
The most naive speaker of English realizes, without going into the details of their syntactosemantic relationships, that chain-armour and chainmail do not bear the same relationship to chain as chain-gang, chain-letter , and chain-stitch , that the chain in chain reaction is different from that in chain store (not `a store where one buys chains') and in chain-smoker (not `a person who smokes chains'), and that while chain drive and chain-saw are related because both are driven by chains, the use of chain in chain-link and chain-mail is semantically misleading, for the chief characteristic of a chain is its “one-dimensionality” while chain-link and chain-mail are, of course, two-dimensional--creating what might be considered a bent metaphor.
I have tried to build my argument not on the over-interpretation of single, apparently key words but on the evidence of the use of those words within a set, within a context of groupings of semantically related words that gain weight and suggest directions of enquiry from their mass.
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