Re: Logic in Languages
From: | Christopher B Wright <faceloran@...> |
Date: | Friday, June 28, 2002, 13:51 |
>Do any natural languages adopt a different structure? For instance:
>and X Y
I know Latin's -que, as in:
Senatus Populesque Romae (I think....)
Senate People-and Rome-POS
I think that the (and X Y) order would be rare, because (WARNING! Hasty,
wildly inaccurate rule based on insufficient data ahead!) it seems that
|and| is functioning like a preposition on the second item. A language
with postpositions in its past or present would likely have the (X Y and)
order.
Laimes,
Wright.