Re: [engelang] discourse-scoped existental quantifier - engelang messages

In fact (and this may well be my out in earlier problems -- while presenting new ones later), the leftmost quantifier is a particular, sV, in Montague. I forgot to change it when it leapt. How is the tale going to develop? Is poverty or forestry central to his story or are they both equal? I suspect it doesn't really matter much: "Some poor ting is a woodcutter. He ..." Some poor woodcutter ..." come to the same thing in the end (although what poor means absolutely can be a problem eventually, but not formally).

From: And Rosta <and.rosta@hidden.email>
To: "engelang@yahoogroups.com" <engelang@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 8, 2012 7:36 PM
Subject: [engelang] discourse-scoped existental quantifier

As I wrote in the other thread:

> There's a slightly different quantifier that I'd been meaning to
> mention, but have kept on forgetting. It's an existential quantifer
> with scope over the whole discourse:
>
> "Once upon a time, there was a poor woodcutter. He lived in a hut
> with his dutiful daughter."
>
> In Livagian I treat it as a separate quantifier in its own right.
> (Livagian doesn't have Xorban's lV.)

How to do this in Xorban? Just "la [poor]a [woodcutter]a"? -- No, tthat's "The poor are woodcutters"? Maybe "sa [hereby-newly-introduced-into-discourse]a je [poor]a [woodcutter]a"?

--And.