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On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 3:12 PM, And Rosta <and.rosta@hidden.email> wrote: > > Compare > > E1'. She believed him dead. > E2'. She saw him dead. > E3'. She believed and saw him dead. > > E3' seems rather sylleptic to me. I can't really judge for English, but the equivalent in Spanish seems fine to me, especially if you desimultaneize them: She believes him, and will soon see him, dead. Or if you put the seeing before the believeing: She saw and (thus) believed him dead. > Nevertheless, I agree that for Xorban f- suffices. This brings up the issue that in addition to the dyadic "x1 believes x2"/"x1 sees x2" we could also have triadic "x1 believes x2 to be x3", "x1 sees x2 being x3", so we can say: la mrsa krca'ike'ika She believes him dead, la mrsa vska'ike'ika She sees him dead. co ma'a xrxe