Re: me and my languages

Jesse Bangs wrote:
> Yet in none of these can you (apparently) separate the definitely article
> 'az' from the noun 'ember.'  This would be possible in a language with
> *true* free word order and no adjacency constraints, but I'll bet a
> fairly large sum of money that no natural language is like that.
> (Syntactically, I think this has to do with the no-crossing-branches
> constraint and some other stuff, if anyone cares.)
Actually, there are languages where you can, to a certain extent,
separate nouns and adjectives.  I believe Mohawk is an example, so that
you can say, in essence, something like: Old saw I man for "I saw the
old man"

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