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Marcus wrote: >Jesse Bangs wrote: > >>but I'll bet a >>fairly large sum of money that no natural language is like that. > >I might be willing to take that bet. Off the top of my head, I can think of >languages that can separate nouns and quantifiers, adjectives, >demonstratives, and other modifiers. The only thing that I cannot >immediately think of is a language that allows separation of a definite >article from its noun. I believe Ancient Greek allows the construction: "the on the river boat", "the in the room chair" etc. Don't know if it persists in Modern Greek. Kou