- Hong Kong University Press and London or New York: Oxford University Press, 1956. xiv+130 pp.
- So far as the first part of the sentence quoted is concerned. But since it occurs in a note on Ermitaño na puera, in a context where Spanish would have por fuera, and “the use of the Ermitaño preposition na would seem to indicate a kind of substantivization of what in Spanish is an adverb”, there can be no doubt as to what is meant by the second part. Would Whinnom attribute to a like “readiness to confuse different parts of speech” the fact that English inconvenient is treated as an adjective, but French inconvénient, from which it was borrowed, as a noun?
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