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Anton Sherwood scripsit: > John Cowan wrote: > > . . . That village on the Marathi/Kannada > > border has a local dialect of each language (and of Urdu, too) that > > match *perfectly* in morphology and syntax: only the vocabulary > > distinguishes them, and they are utterly distinct because of it. > > Perfect match - same endings &c - or perfect analogy? The latter. Not only is the morphology aligned, but the syntax trees (not just the sequence of words) have exactly the same structure. But the endings belong to the individual languages. -- Real FORTRAN programmers can program FORTRAN John Cowan in any language. --Allen Brown jcowan@hidden.email