Re: THEORY: appositions in lists (was: Re: THEORY: Ergativity and polypersonalism)

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, René Uittenbogaard <ruittenb@W...>
wrote:

>Ik vertrok met John, de slager; Jack, de kleermaker; en Sally.
>In Dutch, many people already frown on having a comma before "en".
>A semicolon makes matters worse.
In English, we would never use a semicolon in the position
before "and", just the comma.

BTW, "tailor" is spelled with an "o" in English, i.e., unless Jack is
someone who is tailing (à la Sam Spade) someone else rather than
someone who makes clothing.

And I don't think I would apply the word "appositions" to all the
members of the series, just John and Jack.  These are only five
members of a series.

Charlie
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