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At 09:17 AM 12/25/02 +1100, Nick Nicholas wrote:
Another solution, which I think easiest, is to do what we did with
{kau}: just stick a UI on, and say "wherever that UI is, we quantify
the referent right here, not in the prenex."
Another possibility, if it is decided that medial prenexes are needed, is, since the structure of a prenex is a set of terms, add a member to NE that says that the relative phrase is a prenex (we'd have to decide whether a preposed vs. postposed relative phrase made any difference).
I see what you're also doing is saying:
{le} is +specific -veridical
{lo} is -specific +veridical
If we had a -specific -veridical, we'd have the solution to our
problems.
I would imagine that there are a couple of UI discursives already in the language that would convey -specific, and if the only point is to address possibly non-existent things like unicorns, I don't see why leda'i -unicorn doesn't convey that.
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