Re: Problems with Abstraction

[John Cowan <cowan@DRV.CBC.COM>]

Lee Daniel Crocker (none) wrote:

> The refgram makes sense and is reasonably clear on this point, but I
> do see {ka} and {ni} used (by myself, too) as if there were a semi-
> implied {ce'u} or {makau} in the first omitted place.

Perfectly OK.  An omitted place means whatever the speaker intends
it to mean, and if the intent is to mean "ce'u", then that's what
it means.  "ce'u" was put into the language to allow the existing
usage (omitted place) to be made explicit.

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