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More Wind from the North



>  Date:        Tue, 16 Jun 1992 12:04:18 EDT
>  From: John Cowan <cowan%snark.thyrsus.com%cbmvax@NET.UU.UUNET>
>
>  Ivan A Derzhanski writes:
>
>  >   {mi djuno ledu'u do djuno ledu'u ma klama}
>  >     `Who do I know that you know that comes?'
>  >       (`Who is the one such that I know that you know that he comes?')
>  >
>  >   ?
>  >     `I know who you know that comes.'
>  >       (`I know who the one is such that you know that he comes.')
>  >
>  >   ?
>  >     `I know that you know who comes.'
>  >       (`I know that you know who the one is such that he comes.')
>  >
>  > One of these two (I have no way to guess which) may be {mi djuno
>  > ledu'u do djuno ledu'u makau klama}, but the other ...
>
>  The latter.  The former is "mi djuno ledu'u do djuno ledu'u
>  makauxire klama" <...>.

Oh.  I hadn't thought of the possibility of subscripting {kau}.  Note
that this makes {ma} equivalent to {makauxici'i}.

Ivan