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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.