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Re: Anselmisms and gadro
- Subject: Re: Anselmisms and gadro
- From: "Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@hotmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 07:21:21 PDT
la and to coi doi and ui toi cusku di'e
> > >veridical & nonspecific: da poi [= lo]
> > >veridical & specific: ko'a poi
> > >nonveridical & specific: ko'a voi [= le]
Yes! I remember now that we had discussed this.
> > But {ko'a} isn't specific in the same way "the" is. {ko'a} > is a bound
>pronoun, referring to something in particular > that must have been defined
>already.
>
>I think that's only one use of {ko'a}; that is, not all {ko'a}s need be
>bound in a goi phrase. They're very much like English >it/him/her/them.
And if you feel the need for every {ko'a} to be bound, then
assume that previously unbound {ko'a} are simply
{ko'a goi le co'e}, which I think will get us back to
what we want.
co'o mi'e xorxes