Wiki page BPFK Section: Grammatical Pro-sumti changed
On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 01:12:17PM -0700, John E Clifford wrote:
>
> {zo'e} otiose "it"
What?
> used to refer to something it is not necessary to mention in
> context. The unnecessity may be due to 1)the fact that what it is
> does not matter and will not turn up in the conversation or 2) it
> is obvious from the context what is intended. Except in place
> counting and some conventi0ons about abstracts, using {zo'e} is
> exactly the same as leaving the place blank. {zo'e} is preferred
> to {su'o da} because it is shorter and {su'o da} suggest that
> there will be further references to this thing, if it does not
> matter, but is improper if the referent is obvious (and so known).
zo'e is *NOT* su'o da as long as da is a singular variable.
Furthermore, da cannot be an abstraction.
Other than that, is there something in the above that you feel I
left out of my definition?
-Robin