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> We may disagree about whether an answer is a sumti or a du'u, but> certainly lo'i du'u Qkau is a set of *propositional* 'answers' like "Alice> shot JR". What's a propositional answer? Do you mean a filled repeat of the original question, such as "Alice shot JR."?
Yes, that's what it is.
Fine, but then let's stop chanting the mantra that du'u makau zukte is the/an answer to the question. It's not an answer, it's a du'u statement which happens to answer the question -- because it *contains* the answer.
That's what we mean, yes.
If that's all we mean, then makau is just like ko'a if we ease up a bit on the demand that every ko'a must be assigned with goi, and allow them to be assigned operationally. Which is not a bad idea!
But ko'a has a fixed referent. Consider for example:
{ro da pu jdice le du'u makau ba kansa da le nu dansu},
"everybody decided who would accompany them to the dance".
There is no fixed value ko'a that will serve for everyone
there. If we use {ko'a} we'd be saying that everyone decided
to go with the same person.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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