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    • BPFK Section: Syntactic Numbers

    Posted by rlpowell on Fri 11 of Feb, 2005 19:00 GMT posts: 14214
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    Posted by rlpowell on Fri 11 of Feb, 2005 19:14 GMT posts: 14214

    I suggest that these words be broken up into two basic types:

    1. Words that fundamentally divide the number into two sections of
    distinct type: ce'i, fi'u, ki'o (sort of), pi, pi'e, ra'e

    2. Words that scope to the right: ma'u, me'i, ni'u, za'u

    Hmm. I thought ji'i was in this section, which is why I was writing
    this; it seems that ji'i should scope to the right.

    Oh well; I think this breakdown still applies.

    -Robin

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    Posted by xorxes on Fri 11 of Feb, 2005 20:38 GMT posts: 1912


    > Hmm. I thought ji'i was in this section, which is why I was writing
    > this; it seems that ji'i should scope to the right.

    ji'i, me'i and za'u are included in "Inexact numbers", because they
    are part of quantifiers. They go together with su'o and su'e.
    (da'a is not exactly in their group, but it also has scope to the right.)

    mu'o mi'e xorxes





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