(By Martin Haspelmath): "In the European languages, the same marker is used both for conjunction of noun phrases and for conjunction of verb phrases and clauses, as illustrated in (1) for Hungarian (and for English in the translation). Thus, Hungarian és and English and can conjoin both nominal and verbal/clausal constituents... ❡
But in many non-European languages, different conjunction markers are used for different constituent types. An example comes from Dagbani (Gur, Niger-Congo; Ghana), where mini conjoins noun phrases (cf. 2a) and ka conjoins verb phrases (cf. 2b) and clauses (cf. 2c)...."