On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Pierre Abbat
<phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
On Wednesday 15 September 2010 10:25:30 Ian Johnson wrote:
> And when the x4 is "gone", we still don't have any particular problem,
> formally. {no da} is just another sumti, so it makes perfect sense to say:
> mi'o bazu klama ti tu no da
> which I might have to make into a signature or something.
That's equivalent to "mi'o na bazu klama ti tu" (the equivalency would be more
complicated if one of the other sumti also had a quantifier). To
put "nothing" in a sumti in such a way as to keep the sentence positive, you
have to say "lo nomei" or "zi'o". "zi'o" doesn't put "nothing" in the place,
it deletes the place. la filip. klama la actod. le dargu lo nomei lo nomei
Pierre
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