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On Sunday, August 26, 2012 16:51:58 selpa'i wrote:
> Am 26.08.2012 16:26, schrieb Pierre Abbat:
> > "la so pintupi cu bevri lo kanguru": Does this mean that all nine
> > individually carried kangaroos?
> 
> The inner quantifier is part of the name, so it means "The Nine
> Pintupi", but it doesn't tell us how many there are. They could carry
> them individually, but we don't know.
> 
> You can force distributivity with an outer quantifier: "ro la so pintupi".
> To make it explicitly collective, you could say "lu'o la so pintupi".
> In both cases, we don't know how many pintupi there are.

There were nine (one has since died), and they are Pintupi. There are many 
other Pintupi: a few were left behind when most of the Pintupi moved, and 
twenty years later these nine were found living alone in the desert. Is "lu'o 
la so pintupi" equivalent to "la'i so pintupi"?

Pierre
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