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From: bobcoe@cca.CCA.COM (Robert K. Coe)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,sci.lang,sci.lang.japan
Subject: Re: words order in English and Japanese
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Date: 20 Jan 88 13:04:48 GMT
References: <1671@russell.STANFORD.EDU> <275@draken.nada.kth.se> <975@klipper.cs.vu.nl>
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In article <975@klipper.cs.vu.nl> biep@cs.vu.nl (J. A. "Biep" Durieux) writes:
#In article <1671@russell.STANFORD.EDU>,
#	nakashim@russell.stanford.edu (Hideyuki Nakashima) writes:
#>I came up with a theory to explain the difference in word orders
#>between English and Japanese.  This is a very naive theory.  Any
#>comments are welcome.

I have to wonder what Nakashima would make of the Polynesian languages
(Hawaiian et al), in which the very distinction between nouns and verbs is at
most weak and unconvincing.
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