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Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 11:01:22 -0500
From: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
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la .and. cusku di'e

> > There's no problem either with:
> >
> >                             mi denpa tu'a lo plejykarce
> >                             "I'm waiting for something about a taxi."
> >
> > because the quantification is within the abstraction:
> 
> Was that actually established? I don't remember that.

There is no doubt that (absent a prenex) quantification is local
to the nearest enclosing bridi.  Presumably a "tu'a", which implies
an internal bridi (tu'a zo'e = tu'a le su'u co'e) has the same
rule.

-- 
John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan@ccil.org
			e'osai ko sarji la lojban