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Re: THEORY: Conjunctio verborum clausarumque

From:dirk elzinga <dirk.elzinga@...>
Date:Monday, March 20, 2000, 21:37
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 -- Dirk Elzinga dirk.elzinga@m.cc.utah.edu