Re: 'and' clitic in Latin (-que) and Kalaallisut (-lu)

Henrik Theiling scripsit:
> Hi!
>
> Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...> writes:
> >....
> > Anyway, if I'm not
> > mistaken, it should be "et CaesarEM vincit"
> > (accusative) (or do you mean something else ?).
>
> Nono, I mean 'Brutus comes and Caesar wins'.  Both in nominative case.
> That's the point about the question: where to put '-que' if
> coordinating two complete sentences, if that is possible at all with
> '-que'?
I believe that only single words or phrases, not whole clauses, can be
coordinated with -que.  In the case of a phrase, it is appended to the
first word of the second conjunct, unless that word is a preposition,
in which case the -que is displaced to the following word.

The same rules apply to the rarer disjunctive enclitic -ve; -ve is to
vel as -que is to et.

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