Subject: Re: [lojban] go'i: repeated referents or just sumti?

From: "Jorge Llambias" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 19:18:32

la tanatos cusku di'e

>Does {go'i} repeat the referents of the sumti of the previous the bridi
>or just the sumti?

The referents.

(Strictly speaking, the sumti are the referents, but you
follow the usual tradition we have here of misusing 'sumti'
to refer to the words rather than to the arguments themselves.)

>That is, does {le mlatu cu catlu mi. i go'i le
>gerku} necessarily refer to the same cats in the second statement or
>just another group of {ro le su'o mlatu}?

The same cats. Use {go'ira'o} to update referents.

>Is
> le mlatu cu catlu mi. i go'i le gerku
>the same as
> le mlatu cu catlu mi. i le mlatu cu catlu le gerku
>or
> le mlatu cu catlu mi. e le gerku
>?

The latter. The former as well in most contexts. It would be
very bad manners to use a bare {le mlatu} again for a different
group of cats.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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