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On this last point, btw, I've been thinking of proposing a
variety of poi'i that is allowed to override the left-to-right
scope rule, as a kind of reverse zo'u -- call it {zau'o} --
such that:
ro le nanmu cu cinba su'o le ninmu
= zau'o ke'a goi ko'a zo'u zau'o ko'a cinba ke'a kei
fa su'o le ninmu kei fa ro le nanmu
cinba su'o le ninmu fa ro le nanmu
= zau'o ke'a goi ko'a zo'u zau'o ke'a cinba ko'a kei
fa ro le nanmu kei fa su'o le ninmu
-- This device allows for the postponement of long or focal
phrases even when they have scope over what goes before.
It would be useful to be able to do something like that,
but in that form seems to me unusable, we don't want to
start the sentence with all that repetitious empty words.
So we might in addition define the following:
A new series in selma'o KOhA: koi'a, koi'e, koi'i, koi'o,
koi'u (To be augmented with foi'a, foi'e, etc if needed.)
The appearance of one of these pronouns signals that we
must understand a prefixed {zau'o ke'a goi koi'a zo'u
zau'o ke'a goi koi'e zo'u zau'u ke'a goi koi'i zo'u ...},
as deep as we use koi'V.
Then we need a separator term to indicate where the
regular terms end. This is really an inverse {zu'o},
but with the grammar of a term. I'm not sure which selma'o
is best for it, maybe a new selma'o but for the moment
let's just put it in KOhA. Let's say {zo'au}.
The terms after {zo'au} are understood as the x1's of
the implicit {zau'o}s, from deepest to shallowest. So your
sentences become:
ro le nanmu cu cinba su'o le ninmu
= zau'o ke'a goi ko'a zo'u zau'o ko'a cinba ke'a kei
fa su'o le ninmu kei fa ro le nanmu
= koi'a cinba koi'e zo'au su'o le ninmu ro le nanmu
cinba su'o le ninmu fa ro le nanmu
= zau'o ke'a goi ko'a zo'u zau'o ke'a cinba ko'a kei
fa ro le nanmu kei fa su'o le ninmu
= koi'e cinba koi'a zo'au ro le nanmu su'o le ninmu
Maybe.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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