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Sent from my iPad On Oct 14, 2012, at 12:01 PM, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@hidden.email> wrote: ). > > So instead of "la prna le li ckli nlceki mstake" we can say "la je > prna ni'u li ckli nlcaki msta", which uses one fewer variable, but > also we can say "la je frmra je se xsle pnsake ni'u drxake msta", > "farmers who own some donkey and DO beat it are most (of the farmers > who own some donkey whether they beat it or not)", which doesn't have > a "mstake" form without repetition. Ok. La je frma > > Since in principle there could be more than one quantifier "ni'u" > could be tied to, we can say "ni'uka" instead of "ni'u" to make sure > it is tied to "msta". > > Unary quantifiers are not the only kind of predicates that can make > use of a ni/nu comparison. Another example we considered is prfrake "A > prefers E" perhaps reduced from something like prfrakeki "A prefers E > from among I": > > lo je ckfa ni'u ldra prfra'aka > "I prefer my coffee with milk." > (From the choices of coffee whether with milk or not with milk, I > prefer coffee WITH milk.) > > I think more generally "ni'u" can be thought of as a focus marker, for > example tied to something like an implicit "I make assertion x rather > than more general assertion y", where x is the one with ni and y the > one with nu. > > co ma'a xrxe > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > >