Re: quantifiers on sumti - late response

[John Cowan <cowan@LOCKE.CCIL.ORG>]

la xorxes. cusku di'e
>  > Well, not really. I'm not 100 percent sure, but I think {lo'i} works
>  > like {lo}, that means "the set of all boxes, of which there are at
>  > least one". The inner quantifier of {lo'i} is always equivalent to {ro}.

la dilyn. cusku di'e
> The inner quantifier is {ro} unless it's changed, no?  By putting in
> {su'o}, you explicitly say it's not "the one and only set", but some
> piece of that set.

No.  An inner quantifier with a lo-series descriptor (lo, loi, lo'i,
lo'e) is an incidental comment on the size of the (veridical) set.  So
saying "lo'i su'o tanxe" is the same as "lo'i ro tanxe", given that at
least one box exists.

It's only in the le-series (and the la-series, which follows the same
semantic rules) that inner quantifiers do in-mind subselection.
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John Cowan                                              cowan@ccil.org
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