TECH: Afterthought comparisons

[Veijo Vilva <veion@XIRON.PC.HELSINKI.FI>]

Afterthought comparisons of the form

  (1) *mi nelci ti semaubo ta

are, of course, theoretically possible but cannot be realized
due to parser limitations as they would require too deep a
look-ahead. However, a very minor modification of the grammar
would be required to make a new class of afterthought modal
connections possible.

Replacing 'ek' with '(ek|GI)' in suitable places of the sumti
rules in the EBNF grammar would give us the following parseable
form

  (2) mi nelci ti gi semaubo ta

which shouldn't break anything else. The set of claims would
be  (mi nelci ti)(le ni mi nelci ti cu zmadu le ni mi nelci ta),
i.e. of type ii.

  co'o mi'e veion

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