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Re: sticky hypothesis



On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 03:40:24PM -0400, pycyn@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 9/29/2002 5:10:01 AM Central Daylight Time, nessus@free.fr 
> writes:
> <<
> > Is there a grammatical device to make some hypothesis
> > marked by {da'i} sticky?  
> >>
> I suppose that this is pretty much like setting a time, setting a world in 
> which ...  So, {da'i ki} works until {na'u} or bare {ki}.  It does parse 
> correctly by the way.

No it doesn't.  It doesn't attach the ki to the da'i.  I was trying
to find a way to do that using fi'o and such, but it doesn't work,
the KI gets read into a rule for simple-tense-modal which is nothing but
a KI.  So "ki" standing alone is in fact a term.

You *could* try to cheat with do'e like {do'e da'i ki} to at least put
them together though.

-- 
Jordan DeLong - fracture@allusion.net
lu zo'o loi censa bakni cu terzba le zaltapla poi xagrai li'u
                                     sei la mark. tuen. cusku

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