* Sunday, 2011-10-16 at 21:00 -0300 - Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Martin Bays <mbays@sdf.org> wrote:
> > * Saturday, 2011-10-15 at 20:52 -0300 - Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>:
> >> On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Martin Bays <mbays@sdf.org> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Quite. If it does do anything, there's also the issue of which gets
> >> > priority in {ro lo broda poi brode}.
> [snip]
> we still have a way to differentiate both possibilities, at least for
> the "lo broda ku" type of sumti (not for "ko'a"), because there are
> three different points where a relative clause may be attached: "lo
> (1) broda (2) ku (3)". We could say that when attahed at (2) the
> restriction occurs before singular quantification over referents, and
> that when attached at (3) it occurs as a restriction on the singular
> quantifier.
Excellent point. (1) and (2) are still part of the "LE sumti-tail"
construction.
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