Re: THEORY: Conjunctio verborum clausarumque

On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, BP Jonsson wrote:

> At 19:00 19.3.2000 -0800, DOUGLAS KOLLER wrote:
>
> > > For whoever knows: what did Latin do with _et_ and <-que>?
> > > Could you use <-que> with whole clauses?
> >
> >Yep, you could.
> >
> >Dominus ex equo descendit, villamque intravit.
> >The master got off his horse and went into the house.
>
> I never thought of this before, but it is interesting that the -que comes
> after the first word of the second clause, not after the whole second clause!
Wackernagel strikes again. Shemspreg (my PIE conlang) does this
as well.

Dirk

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