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--- John Cowan <cowan@hidden.email> wrote:
> 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.
{lo broda bai brode} and {lo broda baiku brode} are two different
forms. That {ku} is not elidable, so it is not at all surprising
that the {ku} in {lo broda naku brode} is not elidable.
The surprising case is {broda naku}, where {ku} cannot be elided
even though {broda na} is not grammatical. One would expect that
the parser could insert the {ku} as in the case of {broda baiku},
where {ku} is elidable.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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