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Re: [txeqli] Correlatives



Rob Speer wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 06:27:09PM -0800, Mike Wright wrote:
> > I think so, but I'd tend to retain the combination with "vo", thus
> > keeping "kul", "ci", "jaw", and so on as true modifiers, rather than
> > sometimes modifier, sometimes noun--just for the feeling of
> > consistency. (But is "vo" a particle, as advertised, or is it a noun?
> > Could it be considered a kind of all-purpose pronoun?)
> 
> I find it interesting that you consider having a distinction between
> modifiers and nouns to be more consistent than having no distinction.

The consistency is in having the correlatives followed by nouns in
every case, vs. having them followed by nouns in every case but one.

-- 
Mike Wright
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