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Re: [lojban] {zo'e} as close-scope existentially quantified plural variable



* Saturday, 2011-10-15 at 14:38 -0400 - John E. Clifford <kali9putra@yahoo.com>:

> One problem with Lojban is that quantifier scope need not correspond
> to sentences (in some sense of that word -- certainly not bridi).

I understand the scope rules to be such that an unbound {da} rises to
the first prenex, becoming bound to a quantifier placed there. Prenexes
occur in two syntactical constructions: statement, and subsentence. {da
broda .i da brode} consists of two statements, so each gets one
quantifier. {da broda .i je da brode} is one statement, with one
quantifier.

Martin

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