Re: LE and VOI

[HACKER G N <c9709244@ALINGA.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU>]

On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, And Rosta wrote:

> I'm not sure whether this is grammatical, but I think it may be
> possible to contrast "le da poi" (specific, veridical) with
> "le da voi" (specific, nonveridical).

I know that there are issues involving sumti quantification where you can
put an article before a pro-sumti, but to my knowledge it has never been
done to express veridicality. Perhaps this will do in a crunch where you
need to express both specificity and veridicality at once. Otherwise, you
might have to use sentences like "le nanmu cu nanmu", which are separate
from your original sentence about "le nanmu", to show that that which you
describe as a man really is, in fact, a man.

But it sure would be nice just to have one article or maybe an additional
cmavo to express the same thing. Oh, well..


Geoff