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From: Colin Fine <colin@kindness.demon.co.uk>
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Subject:      Re: tech:ro broda/ro lo broda
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In article: <822522493.13264.2@vms.dc.lsoft.com> pcliffje@crl.com
writes:


> pc:
> Semantically or logically (the second-order view of quantifiers) it
turns
> out that quantifiers and LE and several other creatures all belong to
the
> same general type of thing (the logicolinguists seem to prefer
> "determiner" for this sort).  That may be part of the reason that
people
> found it so natural (and the more complex _ro lo xirma_ less so).
>

I'm prepared to believe this, though I don't understand it. But in that
case structures like
        re lo xirma
and
        re lo ci xirma

would appear to be anomolous.

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