On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Mark E. Shoulson
<mark@kli.org> wrote:
On 12/30/2012 10:22 PM, Jonathan Jones wrote:
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Mark E. Shoulson <mark@kli.org <mailto:mark@kli.org>> wrote:
On 12/30/2012 10:16 PM, Pierre Abbat wrote:
Let's suppose that no cross between an Eskimo and a Pintupi
exists (which is
probably true, as Eskimos live in the cold north, and Pintupis
live in the
desert of Northern Territory and Western Australia). I ask a
question: "lo
ginxre be lo skimale .e lo pintupi cu xabju ma?" This should
have a "da'i" in
it. Where would you put it?
Pierre
After the {lo}.
da'i is a UI, it attaches to the preceding word.
Exactly, and to the grammatical unit bounded by that word (I think I didn't make that up). Just as attaching it to the .i would attach it to the whole sentence, putting it after {lo} attaches it to the entire sumti-phrase.
Otherwise, you could put it after the {be'o} that was elided.
Right. Duh. I don't know why I forgot that. Which lo, though?