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multiple membership of terminator selmaho (was: RE: "goi'a"
John:
> And Rosta scripsit:
>
> > Are there specific rules or principles that have been flouted,
> > or are you using "cheated" in a vague sense of "mabla"?
>
> The principle in this case is that an elidable terminator selma'o ought
> not to have more than one cmavo in it, because then it is impossible to
> reconstruct what cmavo should appear when filling in elisions. This
> was discovered back when TO and TOI had two members each, one meaning ( ) and
> one meaning [ ], before sa'a was devised
Fair enough. But all the parser needs to know is the selmaho, no?
I.e. that it is a KU Phrase. The parser doesn't *need* to know the
actual word. In principle, I mean; I don't really know or care about
how the actual working parser works (which is not to say that I am
not glad it exists).
--And.