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la xalbo cu cusku di'e
> I'd like to see some of the Non-Contact Spatials spelled out a little
> more clearly. In particular, I think the intention is that {ri'u ko'a
> broda} assumes that {ko'a} has an orientation, and that the event of
> {broda}-ing is to {ko'a}'s right, and that the speaker's location and
> orientation are irrelevant, but that point is not entirely clear from
> the definition as stated.	

To me it's not about the facing of the tagged sumti. Some things do not 
even have an intrinsic orientation. A tree has no clearly identifyable 
front, yet something can be in front of the tree from a certain point of 
view.

> Same question for {ca'u} and {ti'a}. "In front of X" can mean "between
> me and X" ("a shadow passed in front of the moon"), or it could mean "in
> the direction that X is facing". Both should be expressible, and the
> definitions need to be unambiguously one or the other.

Both are expressible. {ca'u} unambiguously means the former to me, but 
it's not necessarily between X and *me*. It's in front of X as seen from 
a certain frame of reference or reference point.

    lo ctino cu pagre ca'u lo lunra
    "A shadow passed in front of the moon."

This doesn't specify from what direction we're looking at the situation 
(at the moon), but just as with other tenses, this implicit reference 
point tends to be the here and now of the speaker unless context 
suggests otherwise. We can of course be explicit and use {ki}, which 
sets the space-time frame of reference.

    ki mi lo gerku cu denpa ri'u lo tricu
    "From where I am, the dog is waiting to the right of the tree."

This expands directly to:

    lo nu lo gerku cu denpa cu pritu lo tricu mi
    "The event of the dog waiting is to the right of the tree from me."

For all tenses, {broda TENSE ko'e} is {lo nu broda cu TENSE_SELBRI 
ko'e}, and tenses based on ternary predicates which involve a frame of 
reference additionally use {ki} to mark that frame of reference (e.g. 
{za}, {zo'i}, {vi}, {ni'a}, ...).

I agree that clarifying this somehow in the definitions would be useful.

mi'e la selpa'i mu'o

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