Re: Just to be sure

"And Rosta" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.science.linguistics.lojban.jboske
Organization Livagian Consulate
Message-ID <006501c35b97$6aff2040$693b0751@oemcomputer>
xorxes:
> lo broda be ro brode
> 
> is 
> 
> su'o da poi ro de zo'u da broda de
> 
> right?
> 
> In other words, a quantifier in a be-complement does not
> export to the prenex of the main bridi, but only to the 
> prenex of the subordinated clause. I think this is obvious,
> but I just want to make sure everyone agrees.

ye-es, but the subordinate clause is a syntactic artefact.
{lo broda cu brode} can rewrite as {da ge broda gi broda}.
Hence {lo broda be ro brode cu brodo} should rewrite as
{da ge broda be ro brode gi brodo} (with ro within scope of
ge).

--And.
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