From Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de Sun Nov 11 11:49:43 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 11 Nov 2001 19:49:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 66441 invoked from network); 11 Nov 2001 19:49:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m5.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 11 Nov 2001 19:49:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n20.groups.yahoo.com) (216.115.96.70) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 Nov 2001 19:49:41 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de Received: from [10.1.4.22] by n20.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 11 Nov 2001 19:47:06 -0000 Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 19:49:22 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: frants.verf,l.: sticky modal in relative clause(s)? Message-ID: <9smko2+2hu0@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 830 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 149.225.9.248 From: "A.W.T." X-Yahoo-Profile: aolung X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 12038 --- In lojban@y..., "Jorge Llambias" wrote: > > la aulun cusku di'e > > >(...offer for rescue...), dark, subdued, vague, like all offers of that > >kind. (He knows that...) > >(...te friti lenu terckape sidju...) noi tai ki le'e nunfriti cu manku > >zi'enoi xablau zi'enoi nalsatci (.i ki djuno...) > > > >Do I need to make the modal sticky in order to refer to all (parts of?) the > >relative clause(s) joined by {zi'e}? > > You can sidestep the question by saying: {noi tai le'e nunfriti > cu manku gi'e xablau gi'e nalsatci} My previous version was {noi manku gi'e xablau gi'e nalsatci tai le'e nunfriti}, but then regarded {gi'e} as not allowed in relative clauses (what I really would have preferred in contrast to lengthy {zi'enoi}). Couldn't find hints in Woldy. ki'e mu'o .aulun.