la .pycyn. cu cusku di'e
Given my earlier remarks, I think my position has to be that {la
.tsani.} has as much to do with the sky as "Smith" has to do with a
forge, always allowing that a particular user may want to insist on more
(as in the {la cribe} case often cited). That is, {la .selpa'i.} is
purely denotative and whatever semantics (or grammar, for that matter)
{selpa'i} may have are simply not relevant. Note, this does not make
{selpa'i} a name when it stands alone, only when it is properly marked
off, so as to be clearly distinct from the predicate {selpa'i}.
Exactly that.The only thing I'd like to clarify is that you don't need to place dots or glottal stops/pauses around selbri names. The morphology works without that; {laselpA'i} can only fall apart as {la selpa'i}, and the same goes for any other selbri. (cf. tosmabru)
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