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On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 10:28:46AM -0500, Invent Yourself wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, Nick Nicholas wrote:
> > The formal semantics mainstream answer, since 1974, has been to allow
> > prenexes mid-sentence, whether there is an embedded proposition there or
> > not.
>
> Can you show us, with an experimental cmavo "zo'u", what mid-sentence
> prenexes would look like? It sounds ghastly complex.
It requires grammar changes. One possible way would be to add a rule
to term, which allows creating a new subsentence:
term -> [all old term rules] | ZOhOI subsentence ;
Then you'd just start new subsentences wherever:
mi djica zo'oi da poi mikce zo'u da
Or some such.
I guess the idea is that that quantification is then subordinate
to the other quantifications. I don't fully understand how that
is supposed to help though.
--
Jordan DeLong - fracture@hidden.email
lu zo'o loi censa bakni cu terzba le zaltapla poi xagrai li'u
sei la mark. tuen. cusku
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