X-Digest-Num: 222 Message-ID: <44114.222.1226.959273825@eGroups.com> Date: 26 Aug 1999 19:31:00 -0000 From: mark@kli.org Subject: Re: Anselmisms and gadro X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 1226 Content-Length: 920 Lines: 32 >From: A Rosta >Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 15:10:00 +0100 > >From: A Rosta > >> From: mark@kli.org >> > >> >veridical & nonspecific: da poi [= lo] >> >veridical & specific: ko'a poi >> >nonveridical & specific: ko'a voi [= le] >> > >> >More generally, {da} (& co.) gives you nonspecifics, {ko'a} >> >(& co.) gives you specifics, and {voi} gives you the means to >> >make nonveridical descriptions. >> >> But {ko'a} isn't specific in the same way "the" is. {ko'a} is a bound >> pronoun, referring to something in particular that must have been >defined >> already. > >I think that's only one use of {ko'a}; that is, not all {ko'a}s need be >bound >in a goi phrase. They're very much like English it/him/her/them. Huh! That's news to me. Either I missed that ruling/development, or brain cells in charge of remembering it have been lax. ~mark