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Re: [Latejami] sentence with a book title

In a message dated 3/22/2006 11:46:16 AM Central Standard Time, ram@hidden.email writes:


I'm not sure what you're trying to say.  "Tedap" is a relationship: P is
named F, or F is the name of P.  For example:

   Dasu tedapa zovi Latebusi
   = The dog is called Biter.

   Dasu kopa bavi tedapangaw zovi
   = I know the name of the dog.


Since "tedapa" has two arguments, so does "tedapanga".  Doesn't "tedapangaw" also have two arguments?  So the last sentence would be missing the argument for the name of the dog.
I just looked in LS and the examples of case tags have no place for the subject.  
LS 2.5.5.3:
    A/P/F-s: "kopanze" = 'keeping (someone else) current in'
       e.g. The company spends a lot of money kopanze its employees the latest technology.
       [Note that "kopanze" has two objects.  Thus, there is no need
       for an equivalent to the English preposition "in".]

What happens to the subject place of "kopanz-"?

stevo