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Re: [jboske] more on shortening romu'ei stuff



On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 02:50:06AM -0000, And Rosta wrote:
> Is there any difference between having these cmavo in TAhE
> as opposed to CAhA?

Yes.  Consult the bnf for the details, but the short story is that
stag is a list of simple-tense-modals, each of which has any amount
of time/space guys (of which TAhE/ROI is below the time node)
followed by an optional cmavo from CAhA.

That's the difference, but I dunno which would be a better choice.
The CAhA choice probably actually makes more sense in that elsewise
we have to explain "foo ca'a" where foo means romu'ei.  I simply
choose TAhE in my first one because it goes in the same place as
ROI in terms of the grammar.... actually that answers the first
point:  we already *do* have to explain "su'omu'ei ca'a", because
it's grammatical with mu'ei in ROI.

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