Re: quantifiers on sumti - late response

[ucleaar <ucleaar@ucl.ac.uk>]

Jorge:
> > If I want to say "some books are blue" I can say either {ro lo suho
> > lo cukta cu blanu} or just {lo cukta cu blanu}, while if I want to
> > say "some books have a colour" I need to say {ro lo suo lo cukta cu
> > se skari}, or something like that.
> What's wrong with {lo cukta cu se skari}? Unfilled places are
> very accomodating.

What fills the unfilled places in the logical form? I can't think
of anything that would do the job.

> > And "People went" would be {ro lo suo
> > lo remna cu klama}, unless I wish to assert they each went
> > to the same place, from the same place, via the same place,
> > etc. Is this right?
> No, because the default filler is not {da} but {zo'e}, which has
> lots of wonderful properties. (Very lo'e-like now that I think of it,
> great that the vowels agree!)

What are the properties of {zo'e}? I thought it was that it could be
equivalent to {da} or to {keha}; I didn't realize it had extra magic.

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