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xorxes:
> la djorden cusku di'e
>
> >So, I'm not sure what you want for "le nanmu ri prami"
>
> I think he wants to know which of these it means:
>
> A- ro da poi cmima le'i nanmu cu prami da
>
> B- ro da poi cmima le'i nanmu cu prami ro de poi cmima le'i nanmu
>
> In other words: "each of the men loves himself" or "each of
> the men loves each of the other men as well as himself"
Thanks for chiming in to explain what I was failing to
communicate!
> I don't think there is an official answer, but I think it should
> mean A. The problem with this though, is when {ri} jumps scope
> boundaries, which is not the case here
A further problem of sorts is that {da} is of course not a licit
antecedent for an anaphor on the other side of a scope boundary,
but {le'i} is a licit antecedent, and it would be good to have
an anaphor that would take the le'i as its antecedent, even if
{ri} is not the anaphor for this job. The sort of anaphor that
would be helpful would be something like a {go'i} that picks up
its antecedents by backcounting through sumti.
--And.