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RE: [jboske] individuation and masses (was: RE: mass, group,




la and cusku di'e


In other words, your argument is:

1. Inner quantifiers are incompatible with Substance. (True.)
2. {lei/loi PA} is grammatical and presumably meaningful.
3. Therefore, {lei/loi} mustn't be Substance.
4. This leaves the way open for {lei/loi} to just do Collective,
as per standard piano-carrying examples.

That argument seems pretty unassailable to me, and I will join
you in it.

I would change 2. to "{lei/loi PA} (especially {lei PA} in fact) is grammatical and used often, including in paradigmatic examples like {lei ci nanmu cu bevri le pipno}". If it were just that it was grammaticl but never used, then it might eventually be Substance, but in fact it is used.

mu'o mi'e xorxes




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