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On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Mike S. <maikxlx@gmail.com> wrote: > > Here is a way to implement selpa'i's proposal easily in the current > grammar. Call "p-" the "afterthought restriction operator". It would be a > binary operator that would look like a binder, but instead of binding a new > variable, it would conjoin another restriction to the existing restriction > of that variable. That seems more palatable than adding a new selma'o. If we can be sure it doesn't cause problems. > se mlte sa grka pe xkra vskake > "Some cat, some dog, a black cat I mean, [that dog] sees [that black cat]. > > This would be logically equivalent to: > se je mlte xkre sa grka vskake. What happens when there's no prior restriction: se pe xkre mlte bjre Would that be the same as "je"? And what happens when you can't move it back: re mlte sa grka pe jrsake xkre Every cat, some dog, that the dog chases the cat, is black. That looks donkeyish: re frmre sa xsla pe pnseka drxeka Every farmer, some donkey, that the farmer owns the donkey, beats it. co ma'a xrxe