Re: quantifiers on sumti - late response

["Dylan P. Thurston" <dpt@math.harvard.edu>]

 > > > 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.

How about just {lo cukta cu se skari da}?  The order is important
here: "For some books: for some da (maybe depending on the book): the
book has color da".  It's reasonable to say that elided places come at
the end of the prenex, in which case there's no problem with any of
these.

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 > And

mu'o mi'e. dilyn.