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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. ========================================================================= Thomas Wier "I find it useful to meet my subjects personally, Dept. of Linguistics because our secret police don't get it right University of Chicago half the time." -- octogenarian Sheikh Zayed of 1010 E. 59th Street Abu Dhabi, to a French reporter. Chicago, IL 60637