At 10:53 AM 8/5/01 -0400, phma@oltronics.net wrote:
On Sat, 04 Aug 2001, Bob LeChevalier (lojbab) wrote: >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.)) But wouldn't "soi ri" just exchange Dave with Dave?
It is precisely because of that implication that a "ri" in the soi attached to Dave doesn't refer to Dave. "ri" skips the current sumti if it is part of a construct within that sumti. My statement is that a free modifier should be considered part of the sumti construct it is attached to and therefore ri-counting doesn't include Dave.
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