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RE: Cowan on relative clauses
- To: John Cowan <cowan@snark.thyrsus.com>
- Subject: RE: Cowan on relative clauses
- From: cbmvax!uunet!oasis.icl.co.uk!I.Alexander.bra0122
- Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1992 19:30:49 BST
- Reply-To: cbmvax!uunet!oasis.icl.co.uk!I.Alexander.bra0122
- Sender: Lojban list <cbmvax!uunet!pucc.princeton.edu!LOJBAN>
doi djan. kau,n.
ku'isai
Surely "lo ci mi ctuca" is a bridi meaning "The three of us teach",
not a sumti ("The teacher of the three of us"). <Quantifier> <sumti>
is a sumti-tail in my copy of the grammar, and there doesn't appear
to be any way of quantifying a preposed possessive.
And I would interpret "ciboi mu denmikce" as "Three out of
(a group of) five dentists", something like "There were
five dentists, of whom three ...".
(The inevitable typos:
po -> poi steci
po'e -> poi se ponse
)
co'omi'e .i,n.