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Re: [lojban] Re: soi vo'a and embedded bridi
At 06:13 AM 8/4/01 -0700, Nick NICHOLAS wrote:
> 2. Can one say "I saw Bob hit Dave and vice versa" with "soi"?
Yes, but no longer with vo'a: mi viska lenu la bob. darxi la deiv. soi la
bob. (or: soi le nei, or: soi ra [and pray], or: soi ri xi re)
soi ri, I think, since soi is attached to la deiv. (I'm willing to be
proven wrong on this if the book says otherwise, but failing that, I would
treat free modifiers attached to a sumti as if they were a kind of relative
clauses or phrase (and indeed they are, since the soi X could be replaced
by a noi bridi) and use ke'a to refer to the sumti they are attached to.
(Free mods can attach to other things of course.))
lojbab
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