Subject: RE: zi'o and modals

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 21:14:55 EDT

In a message dated 6/10/2001 5:53:33 PM Central Daylight Time, 
[email-masked] writes:

> : mi klama      ; I go
> > b: go'i bai ma   ; Compelled by what?
> > a: zi'o          ; Nonexistent, doesn't apply
> > b: je'e          ; roger.
> 
> Shouldn't a respond with noda, not zi'o?
> 

Yes, for the most part.  The whole idea of modal+{zi'o} is kinda odd, since 
{zi'o} is there to incapacitate an essential part of a relation.  So why add 
a new factor and then cut it off?  The {zi'o} answer above might make that 
point over and above {noda}.