Re: "Each Other"
From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
Date: | Thursday, January 22, 2004, 7:27 |
From: Rob Haden <magwich78@...>
> How do different languages (natural and artificial) handle the
> English expression "each other"? It seems to me that it's very
> idiomatic.
It's not too strange. The real divide is AFAIK between those who
use some kind of special pronoun and those which morphologically
change the head verb to alter the argument structure.
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