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Re: THEORY: questions

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Thursday, October 25, 2001, 8:28
Hi!

Kenji Schwarz <lehelejui@...> writes:
> --- David Peterson <DigitalScream@...> wrote: > > - Why a separate word? Why any marking at all? >> > > > > Is there any natural language without one? > > Manchu, for one.
Interesting! No coordination particle/conjuction at all? Very cool indeed. Because, I noticed that when translating into Tyl-Sjok, which only has *one* coordination particle for all sorts of links between sentences (and, or, although, but, ...), I can never decide whether to use it or to go for two sentences. Tyl Sjok drops everything anyway so usually, I drop the coordination particle. But not always. With this additional information, namely that languages don't need coordination particles, I think I'll have to drop the particle from Tyl-Sjok. At least, I will think about this... **Henrik PS: Tyl-Sjok has means of expressing conjuction, disjunction, etc, of course. With words like `also', `alternatively', `in contrast to that', `in the same way', etc.