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la pycyn cusku di'e
All of these back-counting devices are psychologically unlikely to work.
I agree.
They need, at best, back referring that picks out the right thing without intermediate processing. Since the cases where this sort of problem ariseswith {ke'a} and {ce'u} ought to be few (it is easier tofigure out another wayto sait than to figure out how to say it this way),
How would you say "the man that kicked the dog that bit him"?
(I would probably just say {le nanmu poi tikpa le gerku poi batci ny},
but that's cheating.)
this is not a major
problem, but a general solution would be useful. Replacing {ke'a} with
ordinary anaphora seems to work in the given case, but is not obviously a
general solution (getting rid of the {ke'a xi pa}s also helps). And it
doesn't help at all, obviously, for the {ce'u} cases.
I don't see the obviously. For me, {ce'u} hangs as much from a prenex
as {ke'a}, so they can always be goied to a ko'a-series variable. In both
cases the problem is that it requires forethought, but it seems to be a
pretty general solution.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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