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Re: perfective counting



And:
> {kancu} means oreckon up the cardinality ofo - a different sense
> of ocounto than the meaning outter integer-names in sequenceo, and of
> course that latter sense of count *is* a sequence - a sequence of utterings
> of integer names. Admittedly, it is not the utterer that is a sequence, so
> maybe I got the place structure wrong.

I agree we don't want {kancu}. We need something with {bacru}. I propose
{nacpoiba'u}.

{nacpoi} is "x1 is a sequence of numbers ordered by rules x2".

Then {nacpoiba'u} is "x1 utters a sequence of numbers ordered by rules x2".

{mi nacpoiba'u} would be "I count (in the usual order)".

        mi nacpoiba'u co'a li mu co'u li pano
        I count from five to ten.

Jorge