unless

Henrik Rosenkvist Henrik.Rosenkvist at nordlund.lu.se
Mon Nov 24 13:04:00 UTC 2003


>Dear Funknetters,
>
>there seems to be a semantic relation between the meanings 'except'
>and 'unless'. OE but, OSw utan and (possibly) Latin nisi convey both
>of these meanings. Are there more examples of this meaning
>correlation in other languages?
>
>Henrik R.

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