the use of tu'a with sisku

I am abit confused about the use of tu'a in th ex2 place of sisku 
when talking about an object.

Fistly I don't see the logical necessity of the x2 place being a 
property. Secondly I don't understand how using tu'a makes it ok to 
use something that isn't a property as tu'a is simply used to extract 
a sumti from an abstraction; the point is though if you want to 
express that you are looking for something concrete, then there is no 
abstraction to extract it from!

For example, if I wanted to say 'I look for the dog' my understanding 
is I need to say 'mi sisku tu'a le gerku'. This doesn;t make sense to 
me as it has a literal meaning of 'I seek the-bridi-implied-by the 
dog'. What is this implied bridi? It's not 'le ka gerku' as that 
would mean I am looking for the property of being a dog. What I am 
trying to express is that I am looking for a physical being that is a 
dog.

Can anyone explain the reasoning behind all of this?

Cheers

Matt



 
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