methods of resolving mismatches between place structures and number of overt sumti
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 17:37, John E Clifford wrote:
> I guess we just disagree about that. I have no
> trouble in someone finding a bottle and saying
> {ti botpi} or even {ti botpi la kok lo blaci} and
> meaning (correctly it turns out) that this is
> just like a bottle but for its lack of a lid.
Yes, but {ti caca'a botpi la kok} and {ti caka'e botpi} are false. The bottle
has a lid, but the lid is somewhere else, and without a lid it can't contain
something in a botpi way.
Of course if you find a bottle top, you can say {ti ve botpi}, and the same
tense applies.
phma
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