Re: TECH: QUERY re cmene

[Mr Andrew Rosta <ucleaar@UCL.AC.UK>]

> How do you recognize "name context"?  I  notice the <BAI> "me'e".  I
> would say that this is the "name tense", e.g.
>
>         ko'a me'e tirxu
>         [He] is Tiger

Your English translation suggests that this is equative & could
equally well be _Tiger is him_. Would "[he] is entity-named-_Tiger_"
be a better translation?

> This is similar to "he is called Tiger" except the latter is better
> rendered as "ko'a se cmene la tirxu".

What does _la tirxu_ refer to here? Does it refer to the *name* _tirxu_
or does it refer to the category of things named _Tirxu_? Ah, no -
sorry - I see you already answered that, thus:

> Then I would interpret "la" as an abbreviation for "le me'e", e.g.
>
>         la tirxu == le me'e tirxu

But in this case _le cmene_ is not a name but rather is a category
of named entities - pretty well the same thing as _le se cmene_!

Surely the x1 of cmene must refer to a name, so _la .And. cu cmene mi_
is wrong in the way _le tirxu cu gismu_ is.

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