On 11 May 2010 16:57, Luke Bergen
<lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
That brings up a question for me. In that sentence that you gave tijlan, what about the text tells us that the {fi lo cukta...} applies to the {prali} and not to the {pensi}? Does {sei} take a bridi, a selbri, or something else? What terminates a {sei} or is the idea of terminating {sei} as absurd as terminating {zo}? I've perused the CLL but {sei} isn't documented very well there from what I have found.
{sei}'s scope ends right after the end of the last selbri that it contains. So, no sumti or tag following that in-sei selbri becomes part of the sei scope, unless they are attached to it with {be}.
One little advantage of {sei} is that its terminator {se'u} is elidable in more occasions than {to}'s {toi} is:
ma prali sei la alis pensi [se'u] ti
ma prali to la alis pensi toi ti
But an easy change in the word order would offset that advantage:
ma prali ti sei la alis pensi [se'u]
ma prali ti to la alis pensi [toi]