Re: goi

[John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>]

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> However, I'm a bit confused about how goi works. If you have X goi Y,
> and one or both of them have *already* been assigned a referent, what
> happens? Does the referent stay, or is it overridden and replaced by
> the new referent?
> 
> I had intuitively felt that goi should assign new reference to the
> following term (tho I know this isn;t quite how it works officially).

The order of the terms is not important.  Rather, there is a hierarchy,
such that the lower sumti in the hierarchy is assigned the same
referent as the higher sumti, overriding any referent it may have
had.  Unassigned KOhA-series cmavo are the lowest, then assigned cmavo,
then names, then non-veridical descriptions, then veridical descriptions
and numbers (this last class cannot be overridden).

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