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la and cusku di'e
Certainly there is a difference between There is a man such that all week it has been the case that John hits him. All week it has been the case that there is a man that John hits. =At no time during the week has it been false that there is a man that John hits. I would have thought that la djan cu darxi lo nanmu ze'a le jeftu la djan cu darxi ze'a le jeftu lo nanmu would respectively be the ways to express the two meanings. But I may be wrong -- afaik, this precise point has never been discussed before.
I think that is not the way. I think {ze'a} refers to a single
interval and not to all points in an interval as points.
To get that we have {roroi}:
la djan cu darxi lo nanmu roroi le jeftu
There is a man such that Johnhits him every
time during the week.
la djan cu darxi roroi le jeftu lo nanmu
Every time during the week, there is a man that
John hits.
But {ze'a} should be a singular term.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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