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Re: [lojban] Re: goi



In a message dated 7/27/2001 9:44:40 PM Central Daylight Time,
jjllambias@hotmail.com writes:


Come to think of it, ko'a series KOhA are _never_ anaphoric, as they
must always be assigned with goi, or eventually by context, but they
never pick the referent of a previous word the way letter-pronouns,
ri-ra-ru and others do.


"Anaphora" means "repetition" so anaphoric pronouns are ones that stand in
place of repetitions of nouns.  KOhA, when assigned, are presumably used in
place of whatever _expression_ was assigned them and so are anaphoric.  the
don't come by their anaphoric powers casually, like the literals, nor by
counts or place like the others, but only by formal declaration.  And so they
(like the literals) can do other things as well.  but when assigned that are
anaphoric.