Thursday, 11 February 2016

phrases - The usage of " to come up for "

My interpretation is that the syntax is correct, and "termination" is necessary. The more common idiom "to come up" (to emerge, happen, arise, be noticed) is being combined with the prepositional phrase "for termination". The law regarding freedom from land obligations "came up" (in that it came to people's attention) in 1863, and specifically for the purpose of being terminated.



Semantically, it does seem rather confusing, I will admit. I think the author's intent was that the obligations themselves came up for termination, not the freedom from the obligations, but I don't know enough about Russian history to say which actually happened.

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