Re: a textual present from Tuesday night. Improvements sought.

[John Cowan <cbmvax!snark.thyrsus.com!cowan>]

la .iVAN cusku di'e

> >  le selsanga cu mo
>
> I'd take that {cu} out.

Can't.  Since "mo" has the same grammar as a brivla, it will form a useless
tanru with "selsanga".

> >  <<lu le nuntse be fi lo vorme li'u>>
>
> Damn.  That's the {N nuntse X Y} from {X zutse Y}, right?  Where in
> the grammar does it say that this is the way {nunP} works (shifting
> P's arguments one place forward and freeing x1 for the event itself)?

It doesn't, yet, but it will.  See forthcoming paper on abstraction.  All
of the abstraction rafsi work this way:

	nunklama = x1 is the event of x2 going to x3 from x4 via x5 using x6

which is why there have to be ways of extending SE and FA to handle za'umu
places.

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