From jjllambias@hotmail.com Thu Aug 26 07:21:21 1999 X-Digest-Num: 222 Message-ID: <44114.222.1222.959273825@eGroups.com> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 07:21:21 PDT From: "Jorge Llambias" Subject: Re: Anselmisms and gadro la and to coi doi and ui toi cusku di'e > > >veridical & nonspecific: da poi [= lo] > > >veridical & specific: ko'a poi > > >nonveridical & specific: ko'a voi [= le] Yes! I remember now that we had discussed this. > > But {ko'a} isn't specific in the same way "the" is. {ko'a} > is a bound >pronoun, referring to something in particular > that must have been defined >already. > >I think that's only one use of {ko'a}; that is, not all {ko'a}s need be >bound in a goi phrase. They're very much like English >it/him/her/them. And if you feel the need for every {ko'a} to be bound, then assume that previously unbound {ko'a} are simply {ko'a goi le co'e}, which I think will get us back to what we want. co'o mi'e xorxes