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Event abstractors
As I understand it
la djan. cu pu cinba la maris.
describes "John kissed Mary". I don't understand how this is different
to describing "an event of John kissed Mary":
nu la djan. cu pu cinba la maris. kei
except that it now has bracketing which will allow it to be embedded
into another bridi without syntactic ambiguity:
le nu la djan. cu pu cinba la maris. kei cu vrude
(that John kissed Mary is good)
Am I missing something which "nu" does to the semantics here or
does "nu ... kei" just package up the event for embedding?
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