Re: "and"
| From: | Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, August 14, 2006, 22:40 |
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In a message dated 8/13/2006 12:05:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
chris.maths_student@NTLWORLD.COM writes:
>In all your examples "and" is a conjunction, it's just joining different
>kinds of things together. And in English can be used to join together
>clauses, NPs, PPs and various other things, as long as it's joining
>together two things with the same basic function (you can't conjoin a
>clause and a PP for instance). In other languages, there may be
>different words all translated as "and" which are more specific in what
>they can join together.
A conlang example is Klingon, which has _je_ to join NPs and _'ej_ to join
clauses.
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