In a message dated 4/2/2002 4:30:59 AM Central Standard Time, araizen@newmail.net writes:No it doesn't. 'zmadu' requires a unary property in the 3rd place. Why? Why not say "is to the left of"? <I don't think that a 'makau' is appropriate with 'zmadu'.> Right; {zmadu} doesn't ask or answer a question (doesn't take a propositional object). <> lenu la fred. bilma cu zmadu lenu la djordj. bilma kei > leka ce'uxipa goi tu'a ce'uxire rinka leka ce'uxire ruble? Even there it's not completely clear what is raised out of the abstraction; it could also be the illness.> Nor is it clear what abstraction is being raised from -- this is an open variable, not confined to the stuff in the neighborhood, except conventionally. |