From mark@xxx.xxx Thu Sep 2 14:16:35 1999 X-Digest-Num: 229 Message-ID: <44114.229.1259.959273825@eGroups.com> Date: 2 Sep 1999 21:16:35 -0000 From: mark@xxx.xxx Subject: Re: blanu kanla >From: "michael helsem" >Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 12:15:31 PDT > >From: "michael helsem" > >stidi lu mi nelci lo nanmu .e lo blanu kanla ninmu je verba >li'u .a lu .e lo poi blanu kanla ku'o ninmu .e lo poi blanu >kanla ku'o verba li'u .i ji'a cumki fa lu .iu nanmu jeke blanu >kanla ninmu je verba ke'e li'u But that brings in tanru ambiguity again. And maybe the sumti being conjoined aren't descriptions; maybe I mean "I like Bob and ((Alice and Sue) who-incidentally have red hair)." Using tanru won't help there. Preposed relative clauses are possible, but you have to repeat them (in which case I could just as easily used postposed ones; the point was making ONE relative clause/phrase apply to a complex sumti but not necessarily ALL of it.) UI cmavo don't enter into it, because the predicate in question was just an example; substitute "lanli" or "catra" (which needn't be emotional!) if you like. I was asking generically; no fair restricting to my example. ~mark