Re: quantifiers on sumti - late response

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

Dylan:
> > > > 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".

I may well be wrong, but I think the order doesn't matter, & your
example means "There is something, X, and there is something, Y,
such that X is colour of Y and Y is a book".

Again, I may be wrong, but I think you are interpreting the example
as "Each of some books has a colour", which is in fact exactly how
I think it should be interpreted (though this is not the current
official line), the logical form being:

  There is a set, X, such that for every Y such that Y is in X,
    Y is a book and there is something that is colour of Y.

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