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la and cusku di'e
> Ok. But it should be a gadri that does not take inner > quantifiers We agree. Is there any way to *prevent* a gadri from taking an inner quantifier?
Not with the current grammar, no.
Or do we just have to say that any inner quantifier is meaningless?
Yes. My argument for {lei} not being Substance is that it takes
inner quantifiers in actual use, not so much that it is
grammatically allowed to. {lo'e} never takes inner quantifiers
in actual usage, because it would also be pretty meaningless,
as you pointed out.
{loi} doesn't take inner quantifiers in usage either, so in
principle we could have loi for Substance and lei for Collective
but that breaks other stuff.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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