Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Linguistics

The use of "because" is evolving.  This is cool.

I am not convinced that it is behaving as a different part of speech, though.  I perceive this more as a deletion effect, omitting the preposition previously used with it: "I'm late because of the internet" --> "I'm late because internet."  It doesn't work the other way, keeping the preposition: *"I'm late of the internet."  
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I'm pretty sure you're right, and I think several other words could be included in this, like "but", where omission creates a new usage that implies the rest of the phrase/sentence. "I was right, but politics."