Suppose you say instead "mi na pinxe pimu lo djacu goi ko'a".On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Ian Johnson <blindbravado@gmail.com> wrote:
> .oi lo'ai pi ro sa'ai pi mu le'ai
>
> .u'u mu'o mi'e .latros.
>
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Ian Johnson <blindbravado@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Suppose I say {mi pinxe loi djacu goi ko'a}. Suppose the precise statement
>> is {mi pinxe pi ro loi djacu goi ko'a} (but I don't say this). To what does
>> {ko'a} get assigned, the entire mass, or just the portion of the mass that I
>> drank?
Assuming fractional quantifiers behave like ordinary quantifiers, that
means you drank some amount (if any) other than 50% (say you drank
20%). Then there is no such thing as "the 50% that I didn't drink", so
ko'a can only have the same referent as "lo djacu". A quantifier
_expression_ doesn't have a direct referent that it could transfer to
"ko'a".
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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