On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Jorge Llambías
<jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Adam D. Lopresto <adam@pubcrawler.org> wrote:
>
> I've always thought that {se ja'e ma} is the most general version. It's
> just
> "as a result of", without specifying what kind of result.
I think {se jalge} definitely covers {rinka}, but I'm not sure it
covers all kinds of {mukti}. A motive can be an event that is
(potentially) in the future of the event it motivates. Can a result
occur before what it results from? For example:
lo nu mi ba te vecnu lo matne cu mukti lo nu mi klama le zarci
I will buy butter motivates I go to the market.
I go to the market to buy butter.
lo nu mi ba te vecnu lo matne cu krinu lo nu mi klama le zarci
I will buy butter is the reason I go to the market.
I go to the market because I will buy butter.
both sound acceptable. I'm not sure about:
? lo nu mi klama le zarci cu jalge lo nu mi ba te vecnu lo matne
? I go to the market is the resut of I will buy butter.
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