Re: Consecutives like Hebrew's "waw-consecutives" in your 'langs

On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 13:58:36 -0400, Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...>
wrote:
>Would you use a similar set of quartets for various other conjunctive
>notions?    "Or", "nor", "if", "that", "then", "while", etc.?
It has occurred to me that "nor" is just like "and" for items of negative polarity.
That is, if I want to co-ordinately conjoin a chain of clauses all of negative
polarity, and all of the same voice and same aspect, I should use the same
version of "and" that I'd use if they were all of positive polarity.  The
difference between "and" and "nor" would be shown by the polarity within the
clauses rather than by the conjunction.