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Re: [engelang] Xorban: parentheticals and interjections



On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 8:55 PM, And Rosta <and.rosta@hidden.email> wrote:
> Jorge Llambías, On 15/09/2012 22:04:
>>
>> But if c- doesn't necessarily begin a sentence, something like "la
>> bcda na ca fgjo'e klma" would be ambiguous between "ca fgjo'e"
>> inserted into "la bcda na () klma" and "na ca fgjo'e" inserted into
>> "la bcda () klma".
>
> I accept that parentheticals have to begin with an illocutionary -- if
> necessary with a parenthetical-marker illocutionary.

The same problem applies to the main sentence. "la bcda ca fgjo'e
klmo'e" would have two readings: sentence "la bcda () klmo'e", with
inserted parenthetical "ca fgjo'e", or sentence "la bcda ca fgjo'e"
followed by new sentence "klmo'e".

ca'aka ma xrxe