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Wallops #8



>Date:         Tue, 7 Jul 1992 20:56:29 BST
>From: Ivan A Derzhanski <iad%COGSCI.ED.AC.UK@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
>>  Date:        Tue, 7 Jul 1992 14:14:36 -0400
>>  From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <shoulson@EDU.COLUMBIA.CTR>
>>  >From: Ivan A Derzhanski <iad%COGSCI.ED.AC.UK@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
>>
>>  >Does {da} here work for `him'?
>>
>>  I think it does.  Sort of "There's someone neither Christ nor the Devil
>>  wants".
>I was afraid whether the scoping didn't work the opposite way (to the
>effect of `Christ and the Devil want no one').

Remember the default quantifier on {da}: {su'opada zo'u}.  Unless otherwise
specified, variables are presumed to be existentially quantified.  So it
works.

~mark