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by andrepd 1910 days ago
> That introduced students to another distinctive feature of Latin: like C++, Latin has a context sensitive grammar.

Surely this is a feature of all languages :)

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Certainly not.

The first example of context-sensitive constructions in natural language was found in 1985.

http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~shieber/Biblio/Papers/shieber85...