12.2406, Qs: Turkish Coordinating Conj, Taliban Lang/Balochi

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-12-2406. Fri Sep 28 2001. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 12.2406, Qs: Turkish Coordinating Conj, Taliban Lang/Balochi

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1)
Date:  Thu, 27 Sep 2001 16:17:54 -0500
From:  "John R Te Velde/forlang/cas/Okstate" <forljrv at okstate.edu>
Subject:  Question on Turkish

2)
Date:  Thu, 27 Sep 2001 22:04:40 -0400
From:  steven donahue <sdonah01 at bellsouth.net>
Subject:  Language of the Taliban

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Thu, 27 Sep 2001 16:17:54 -0500
From:  "John R Te Velde/forlang/cas/Okstate" <forljrv at okstate.edu>
Subject:  Question on Turkish

Dear Linguists,

About a year ago I received the following construction from a fellow
Linguist Listserv member as an example of an "RNR" construction in Turkish.
Today I have a question about it: Could someone explain to me the position
of the coordinating conjunction, which appears to be after the subject of
the conjoined clause? This order of subject and coordinating conjunction
doesn't occur in any other language that I have data for. Is this
construction grammatical? Is the other "normal" ordering (c. conj. -
subject) also possible?

     Ahmet Hasan karides-i ei Mehmet te       istiridye-yi ye-sin
isti-yor       (Turkish)
     A.   H.   shrimp.ACC     M.   and   oyster.ACC eat.SUBJUNCT       want
.PRPROG

Thanks so much!

John te Velde
forljrv at okstate.edu


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Date:  Thu, 27 Sep 2001 22:04:40 -0400
From:  steven donahue <sdonah01 at bellsouth.net>
Subject:  Language of the Taliban

I am looking for information on the language of the Taliban, which I
understand to be Balochi. Does anyone have information on this? Is an
online glossary available?

Thank you,
Steven Donahue
Language Magazine
steven at glearner.com

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