Re: TECH: "any" & quantification

[ucleaar <ucleaar@UCL.AC.UK>]

Chris:
> xa'a mi nelci xa'a do - Some of us like some of youse
> xe'e mi nelci xe'e do - ???

I reckon the 2nd example shd mean: Let x be any n [default: 1],
but no more than n, of us, and let y be any n [default: 1]
of you, & it is asserted that x likes y.

> Or could it be that the marking is only possible in certain place
> structures, and it is meaningless to contemplate "xe'e mi nelci xe'e do"?

I don't think it's meaningless, but 'irrealis' contexts (descriptions
of things not, or not necessarily, the case) are more likely to
call for "xehe".

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