Re: [jboske] {ka'e nu} versus {du'u}

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

And Rosta scripsit:
> 
> If {du'u} were abolished, are there any cases where it could not
> be replaced by {ka'e nu}, assuming an appropriate tweaking of
> the semantics of sumti places that take a du'u sumti (e.g.
> "true" being reconstrued as "is actual", is "ca'a nu")?

I think that a nu-abstraction, with whatever potential tense,
is extremely weird for "du'u li re su'i re du li vo

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