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Re: RE: [jboske] putative tense scope effects (was: RE:ConcreteexamplesofLlambanlo'e



de'i li 2002-11-03 ti'u li 21:53:00 la'o zoi. And Rosta .zoi cusku di'e

>> So, every time I utter le broda, I am making an existence claim?
>
>No. Like xorxes, I don't accept that {ro da poi cmima le'i broda}
>entails {da cmima le'i broda}.

But 'le'i broda' is 'le'i su'o broda', and so I would claim that
every time you say 'le'i broda', you are claiming that that set is 
not empty.

mu'o mi'e .adam.