From jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU  Sat Mar  6 22:44:53 2010
Date:         Sun, 21 May 1995 12:05:29 EDT
From: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU
Subject:      Re: Quantifiers
To: Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@access.digex.net>
X-From-Space-Date: Sun May 21 12:02:18 1995
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>  > How about this:
>  >
>  >         le se klani be lei nanmu bei lo ckilu be le ka xokau ke'a
>  >         cu nenri le kumfa cu du li ci
>
> I don't follow this.  You use _both_ {xokau} and {ke'a}, and not
> inside a {du'u}, a relative clause, or any other sort of similar
> thing?

They're inside a {ka}, which is where {ke'a} would be used as a
"lambda".

I intended {le ka xokau ke'a cu nenri le kumfa} to mean "the property of
how many of them are in the room".  "Them" plays the role of the
variable in English, the "how many" part is the usual indirect question.

Jorge