Subject: Re: "which?" (was: RE: [lojban] centripetality: subset vs component

From: "Jorge Llambias" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 18:59:57 PDT

la and cusku di'e

> > le mo mlatu i le blabi mlatu
> > Which cat? The white cat.
> >
> > lo mo mlatu i lo blabi mlatu
> > What kind of cat? A white cat.
>
>I don't think this necessarily works, except as a convention that
>exceeds the grammar's stipulations. Specifically, the problem is
>that when discussing "le mlatu", you might want to ask what kind
>of cat it is, and not all relevant answers to that question will
>tell you which cat is being referred to.

But that would be {le mlatu cu mo}, or {le mlatu cu ckaji ma}.
I was not so much concerned about how to get the "what kind?"
question as the "which?", and {le mo} has to mean "which?"
because of {le}'s specificity. It can't mean "what kind?".

co'o mi'e xorxes

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