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xorxes:
> la and cusku di'e
>
> > How does {lenu broda ja'a brode} parse? As {lenu broda ja'a ku kei
> > cu brode}, or as {{lenu broda kei ku cu ja'a brode}? The latter looks
> > more intuitive, but the former is more consistent with the principle
> > of late closure.
>
> 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.
So {lenu broda na kei brode} is unambiguous but ungrammatical?
(And {lenu broda na cu brode} more ambiguous but also ungrammatical?)
--And.