From ucleaar@ucl.ac.uk Sat Mar 6 22:56:10 2010 Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 20:00:41 +0100 From: ucleaar Subject: Re: More about scopes To: Bob LeChevalier X-From-Space-Date: Mon Apr 3 23:28:16 1995 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu Message-ID: <8Vb1vozd-LE.A.-QB.K40kLB@chain.digitalkingdom.org> > (4) le ci nanmu cu bevri pa tanxe goi ko'a > Each of the three men carries it, one box. > > This is very different from (1), because now they are all carrying > the same box. Otherwise, when we next refer to ko'a we wouldn't know > which box it was! > > My conclusion is that {goi} forces the scope of {pa} in this case > to be wider than that of {ro le ci nanmu}. Am I right? Ax, x is one of le ci nanmu, Ey, y is a box, x carries y, y = Koha. That looks fine to me, & pa is within scope of le ci namnmu. --- And