Re: proposed quant. scope cmavo: xu'u

[jorge@phyast.pitt.edu]

la djan cusku di'e

> > I think a connective is the right thing to get parallel scope. If not
> > {e} then one of the non-logical ones.
>
> I think the right connective in the prenex is "fa'u", since the whole idea
> is "Three men A, B, and C touched three dogs a, b, and c respectively.

Well, {fa'u} would be the right one to say that A touched a, B touched b,
and C touched c, (another great use for {fa'u}, it is a very good cmavo)
but that is not the meaning we were talking about. The one that And called
the "coordinate" case would give the nine combinations: A touches a, b
and c; B touches a, b and c; and C touches a, b and c. That's the one
we would get with {e}:

        ci da poi nanmu e ci de poi gerku zo'u: da batci de

Jorge