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> I think {ro lau'i ci nanmu} could be {ro lu'a lu'i ci lo nanmu}
> but then {ri} would not work because it would send to {ci lo nanmu}
> instead of to the whole thing. This might be an argument in favour
> of {lau'i}
I find the lu'a unnecessary, but I would have thought the proposed
rule would make "re ri" mean "re (lu'a) the-aforementioned
lu'i ci nanmu".
You are not counting {ci lo nanmu} as a possible antecedent
of {ri}? If it is, then it has priority over {lu'i ci lo nanmu}
because it starts later.
I don't agree {lu'a} is unnecessary because I would read
{ro lu'i} as "every set" rather than "every member of the set".
I don't currently see why "lau'i broda" isn't equivalent to "lu'i su'o broda", and unless you can see a difference, I think I will move "lau'i" to obsolete proposals and use "lu'i su'o" instead.
I misremembered what {lau'i} was. If it is a set then it
would be {lu'i su'o}, but then I would find it strange to
apply a quantifier directly to get at the members.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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