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Re: [jboske] zo'au, vau



In a message dated 11/3/2002 10:54:06 PM Central Standard Time, a.rosta@hidden.email writes:
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How about

zo'au ro da su'o de

has left to right scope, as per Jorge's suggestion, but

zo'au ro da zo'au su'o de

has outer-inner scope, as I would prefer?

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Is this coherent?  Presumably, the first {zo'au} has an implicit {vau}  at the end of it, so the next {zo'au} goes back to be in front of the whole bridi then completed. So, yes, coherent.  But confusing.  and, of course, it does not solve the internal insertions (but maybe nothing does).  Ahah.  Can we make the final {zo'au} suppletive, overriding the order in the actual or implicit prenex?  Still more confusing, but it takes care of all problems (what is the official line on requantifying an already quantified variable?)