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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