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On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 7:27 PM, selpa'i <seladwa@hidden.email> wrote: > Am 15.10.2012 00:15, schrieb Jorge Llambías: > > > > Well, I suppose we could distinguish counting numbers from measuring > > numbers, but I would rather do it with a modifier than with the basic > > number word. In general I wouldn't mind saying that a count is just a > > special type of measure. > > Oh my, now I wonder how to get all the distributive/non-distributive > quantifying rules into Xorban. r- is all we need for distributive, I think. There are so many ways a predicate can be non-distributive that it doesn't really make sense to me to mark that grammatically. > It would be easy to copy the rest of > xorlo as well, of course, but I don't know. > Are there even enough systematic CV's left for the modifier numbers? In principle there's an infinite number of operators available, although they do get longer and longer. But by modifier I was just thinking of lujvo, say kncynmra vs.klnynmra. But that only when nmra by itself isn't clear. co ma'a xrxe