Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 12:25:25 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199711061725.MAA08641@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: And Rosta Sender: Lojban list From: And Rosta Organization: University of Central Lancashire Subject: Re: terminators and bilingualism X-To: LOJBAN@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 761 X-From-Space-Date: Thu Nov 6 12:25:38 1997 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU > As for postpositional languages, I'm not sure > whether a postposition counts as a terminator or not. It certainly would > if it marked, say, the end of a relative clause, but I'm not so sure about > simple case markers. A language which used pre- and post-positions at the > same time would certainly qualify, though. A circumposition would count, I think. What I have in mind is where you have the first half of the circumposition, followed by a ***phrase*** (not just a single word), followed by the second half of the circumposition. Do such things exist? > The problem is that as far as I > can see, whenever a language has a grammatical word before and after a > phrase, one of the pair is nearly always elidable. What are examples of this? --And