(By Leon Stassen): "This map shows the distribution of the variation in the encoding of noun phrase conjunction. The basic distinction is between those languages which use a different marker for noun phrase conjunction and comitative phrases (so-called and-languages; Stassen 2000) and those languages in which the markers for noun phrase conjunction and comitative phrases are the same (with-languages). A clear example of an and-language is English. As the examples in (1) [John and Mary went to the movies; John went to the movies with Mary], in this language the marker of noun phrase conjunction (and) is different from the marker of comitative phrases (with). In contrast, the example in (2) shows that Nkore-Kiga (Bantu; Uganda) is a with-language: the item na can be translated as either 'and' or 'with'. An alternative way of stating this is to say that with-languages like Nkore-Kiga lack the structural option of noun phrase conjunction."