Re: blanu kanla

[mark@xxx.xxx]

>From: "michael helsem" <graywyvern@hotmail.com>
>Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 12:15:31 PDT
>
>From: "michael helsem" <graywyvern@hotmail.com>
>
>stidi lu mi nelci lo nanmu .e lo blanu kanla ninmu je verba
>li'u .a lu .e lo poi blanu kanla ku'o ninmu .e lo poi blanu
>kanla ku'o verba li'u .i ji'a cumki fa lu .iu nanmu jeke blanu
>kanla ninmu je verba ke'e li'u

But that brings in tanru ambiguity again. And maybe the sumti being
conjoined aren't descriptions; maybe I mean "I like Bob and ((Alice and
Sue) who-incidentally have red hair)." Using tanru won't help there.
Preposed relative clauses are possible, but you have to repeat them (in
which case I could just as easily used postposed ones; the point was making
ONE relative clause/phrase apply to a complex sumti but not necessarily ALL
of it.) UI cmavo don't enter into it, because the predicate in question
was just an example; substitute "lanli" or "catra" (which needn't be
emotional!) if you like. I was asking generically; no fair restricting to
my example.

~mark