Wiki page BPFK Section: Subordinators changed
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 04:43:23PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
>
> --- Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 03:27:27PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
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> > > Well, an example would be something like:
> > >
> > > ci prenu noi melbi cu klama
> > > = ci da poi prenu zo'u da noi melbi cu klama
> > > = ci da poi prenu zo'u ge da melbi gi da klama
> >
> > What is this an example *of*, exactly?
>
> Of how to expand {PA broda noi brode cu brodi}.
OK.
> > Is this intended to be an example of your solution for noi?
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by my solution. The example shows that
> {noi} cannot escape the scope of the quantifier when it is applied to
> a quantified term.
"solution" in the sense of "conversion formula that will work in as many
situations as humanly possible.
> > > lo'i broda ku'a lo'i brode vu'o noi se cmima ci da ...
> > >
> > > The intersection of the set of broda and the set of brode, which
> > > has 3 members,...
> >
> > Ah. What about:
> >
> > [sumti list] vu'o [relative] = da po'u [sumti list] [relative]
>
> That won't always work, especially if da is a singular variable.
Point.
> Besides, which sumti is the relative attached to on the right hand side?
Heh. That's probably fixable.
Got any ideas for how to make this work?
> > > There's certainly no binxo going on. If ko'a was my cat and I
> > > reassign the pronoun "ko'a" to something else my cat does not
> > > become that something else.
> >
> > Oh! Point.
> >
> > Does "poi binxo da poi sinxa [sumti 1]" work for you?
>
> No, there is nothing that becomes a cat here.
sinxa for a cat.
> {goi} is just not a type of {poi}.
- nod*
ko'a goi ko'e = le se sinxa be ko'e cu binxo le se sinxa be ko'a
?
-Robin