Robin's gadri Proposal
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 01:56:22PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> pc:
> > Someplace someone is going to have to give an explicit exposition of
> > the logic of {zo'e}. It seems to be being used — here and earlier
> > — in something like three different and to me incompatible
> > ways: is it an open variable (one without a quantifier) or is it a
> > pronoun for indifferent terms or is it a pronoun for obvious terms
> > or is it yet something else again.
>
> The way I understand it, using zo'e is (semantically) equivalent to
> omitting the term. Sometimes it cannot be omitted for syntactic
> reasons, but that does not add semantic content.
It's a little more intense than that, because zo'e is always any value
that can make the bridi true:
zo'e KOhA7 unspecif it
pro-sumti: an elliptical/unspecified value; has
some value which makes bridi true
This applies, as you say, to elided places.
-Robin