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BPFK Super-Section: BAI sumtcita

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> On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 06:42:24PM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
>
> > > {mi klama mu'i nai lo nu mi nelci}
> >
> > lo nu mi nelci cu na mukti lo nu mi klama
> > My liking is not the motivation of my going.
>
> See, the problem with that (and it's a serious problem) is that in
> makes the event of my going non-veridical.
>
> Perhaps we could make it a sentence connection?

We can: {mi klama i mu'i nai bo mi nelci}. But that doesn't
advance us much WRT what {nai} does there.

If you prefer, we could say:

mi klama ije lo nu mi nelci cu na mukti lo nu mi klama

I don't think we have the realis/irrealis event distinction
well sorted out, though. Main bridi don't always describe
realis events, and I don't see why subordinate bridi can't
be realis in some cases. In any case, I'm not at this point
advancing any suggestions one way or the other. (I prefer
to leave the term "veridical" for descriptions. We can have
a veridical description of an irrealis event, and a non-veridical
description of a realis event, as well as the other way.)

mu'o mi'e xorxes







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