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And Rosta scripsit:
> If you still want to insist that it is false that lo xirma drops
> dung if no da xirma,
No, that's orthogonal to my concern here, which is that the world of Kinds
has only Kinds in it, and Kinds don't interact, outside intentional contexts,
with non-Kinds. So Mr. Horse drops Mr. Dung, and eats Mr. Apples, but may
be drawn by Nick (not merely by Mr. Human or Mr. Nick).
> then the situation is that 3/4XS covers
> everything you want to be able to say, but at the price of
> exploiting the redundant lo/loi contrast in SL in order to be
> able to also speak of Kinds.
I deny that it is redundant except in special cases of place structure
subcategorization.
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