Talk:Agreement in coordinated noun phrases in Runyankore-Rukiga
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Allow me to briefly comment on the examples given under (2):
You write that the most natural way to express (2) is (2c), and you continue
where now instead of a 'na' as coordinating conjunction, it is used as preposition
It looks to me as if coordination is avoided when we have two conjuncts that, although belonging to the same noun class, nevertheless are perceived as quite different things in real life.
In the latter case speakers prefer to use a different construction altogether, namely a construction where one introduces the second participant in a prepositional phrase rather than through a coordination.
--Dorothee Beermann 09:35, 23 November 2010 (UTC)