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Re: i mo'ini'a mo'ini'a mo'ini'a



On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 07:05:50PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> The sentence from Alice,
> 
>     i mo'ini'a mo'ini'a mo'ini'a
> 
> is disliked by jbofi'e, but both my parser and the official parser are
> just fine with it.
> 
> Does anyone know if there's an *actual* problem with it, as such?  If
> so, what?

simple-tense-modal thingies need to be connected with logical
connectives;  you can just list them.  Xorxes eschews this rule
deliberately, IIRC.

Proper grammar is {mo'ini'a je mo'ini'a je mo'ini'a}.

-- 
Jordan DeLong
fracture@allusion.net

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