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Re: Lin: Postpositions

From:Christopher B Wright <faceloran@...>
Date:Wednesday, April 3, 2002, 13:07
Reimond Bron sekalge:
| Lin doesn't use prepositions (i.e. particles placed before noun
phrases)
| but postpositions.  These are always one-letter words which are
immediately
| preceded by {`}, e.g.
| London`a = to London

That must be difficult. You couldn't manage more than (at the furthest)
about eighty postpositions in the whole language, more likely closer to
thirty. How do you cope?

The melodramatic
Chris Wright

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