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Robin Lee Powell wrote:

>On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 09:14:13PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
>  
>
>>I just tried to connect two sentences with {.iseca'obo}. It doesn't
>>parse. I can say {.imu'ibo} or {.isemu'ibo} or {.ica'obo} but not
>>{.iseca'obo}. Why?
>>    
>>
>
>Tell me what "se ca'o" means, and I'll see what I can do to answer your
>question.
>
>Hint: it doesn't mean anything; ca'o has no places, and thus can't take
>SE.
>  
>

The effective argument would be "ca'o is symmetrical, and therefore 
flipping it with se does nothing". ju has no places, yet we use seju.


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