On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 12:22:23PM +0200, Lionel Vidal wrote:
> Is there a grammatical device to make some hypothesis
> marked by {da'i} sticky? I would like to be able to sate
> an hypothesis in the {da'i} sense, then to express
> a bunch of bridis all dependent of it but not connected in
> any other way, and then to reverse to normal discourse.
> Or in other words, something like the sticky tag used for tense,
> adapted to discursives.
> (The context of all this is a tentative translation of some mathematical
> text, where the validity of an hypothesis may run for some times,
> before being proved or disproved)
> Any ideas?
Well, I would've suggested:
fi'o du'u da'i ko'a broda brodu ko'e .e ko'i fe'u ki
But for some unknown reason the grammar only allows KI on
simple-tense-modals, and not the full fi'o ones. Dunno why.
Anyway, so I suggest you could do something like:
.i broda brodu .ini'i tu'e
.i ko'a ko'e broda
.i ko'e ko'a broda
tu'u
Which is probably nicer than trying to use tense stickiness anyway.
--
Jordan DeLong - fracture@allusion.net
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