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Re: [jboske] cu & ja'a



Jorge Llamb��)B�as scripsit:

> Jbofi'e gives the latter. {ku} is not an elidable terminator in {naku},
> {ja'aku}. I can't quite understand why, but I think that's how it is. 

Because "lo broda na brode" and "lo broda naku brode" have different
truth conditions, whereas "lo broda bai brode" and "lo broda baiku brode"
don't.

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