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species of a stone lion
John Cowan:
Ivan's example is "stone lion"; this is a good tanru, and
doesn't mean that "cinfo" has to have the place structure "x1 is a lion
of species x2, made of material x3"! Indeed, the x2 place of "cinfo"
probably never gets filled in "rokcinfo", because it is fairly useless.
Never say never! zo'obu
I can readily imagine archeologists distinguishing among the species
of stone lions, both in the sense of {species represented}, and in the
sense of {stylistic species}.
Not that I am disagreeing with the thrust of what John said; I am
merely shifting the `probably never' to `hardly ever outside of
certain contexts'.