Date:  Thu, 16 Oct 1997 17:10:02 -0500 (EST)
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From: Don Wiggins <dwiggins@BFSEC.BT.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Not just.
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cu'u la xorxes.
> One way is {ji'a}:
>                 la djan ji'a cu pinxe le ckafi
>                 Also John drinks coffee.
> That implies that someone else does.

Having re-read about discursives, it seems to me that the intention was not
to give discursives strict logical definitions.  The discursives indicate
how a predication fits in what has gone before, so semantically it does not
make sense to use "ji'a" in an initial predication.

ni'oco'omi'e dn.