Re: Anselmisms and gadro

[mark@kli.org]

>From: A Rosta <a.rosta@uclan.ac.uk>
>Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 15:10:00 +0100
>
>From: A Rosta <a.rosta@uclan.ac.uk>
>
>> From: mark@kli.org
>> >
>> >veridical & nonspecific:     da poi    [= lo]
>> >veridical & specific:        ko'a poi
>> >nonveridical & specific:     ko'a voi  [= le]
>> >
>> >More generally, {da} (& co.) gives you nonspecifics, {ko'a}
>> >(& co.) gives you specifics, and {voi} gives you the means to
>> >make nonveridical descriptions.
>>
>> 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.

Huh!  That's news to me.  Either I missed that ruling/development, or brain
cells in charge of remembering it have been lax.

~mark