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John E Clifford wrote:

>>That's irrelevant; I don't like proposing
>>changes to the language
>>when what's there isn't broken.
>>    
>>
>
>But whether it is broken depends upon where you
>draw the line; betsemes' examples look close to
>that line on almost any definition of "broken"
>(short of "Can't say it at all") and way over it
>on some. Since what happens between {la} and the
>next significant pause is pretty open, both in
>form and interpretation, we need not to the
>overly analytic version for "Little John,"  but
>the predicate case seems to have no obvious
>alternative (well, hooking {lai kraislr} on at
>the end by some BAI, rather than by {me} in the
>predication directly -- but that is not on the
>present topic).
>
N.B., in betsemes' case (la poi cmalu djan.) there is a mandatory and 
"significant" pause before {djan}, or else we're dealing with a cmene 
{poicmaludjAN}.  Not pausing before cmene is permitted only directly 
after la/lai/doi.

~mark



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