User:Gleki/Particle ⟨le⟩ for anaphora, cataphora, exophora
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Initially proposed by la gleki:
Proposal:
le broda searches for the last sumti starting from x1 of nei, then sequentially other sumti of nei, then going back to di'u and earlier. When a sumti is found such that SUMTI ca'a broda then it automatically refers to that SUMTI. broda can be wrapped into a sumti or can represent a bare selbri.
Examples. broda wrapped into a sumti.
la .alis. cu viska lo ninmu .e lo nakla i le fetsi cu melbi |
Here le fetsi refers to lo ninmu since it was the last sumti such that lo ninmu ca'a fetsi
la .alis. cu viska lo nakla i le fetsi cu melbi |
Here le fetsi refers to la .alis. if the context (other parts of text) show that la .alis. ca'a fetsi
Examples. broda as a bare selbri.
la djan cu cusku zo coi la meris .i le cusku cu gleki |
le cusku refers to la djan since the last selbri cusku has been used for describing him.
la djan cu cusku zo coi la meris .i le bacru cu gleki |
Would bacru refer to cusku? Clearly, this is an edge case since the most common usage of le would be le fetsi for she and similar.
Details
- This proposal is more in line with the actual usage of le.
- It relies purely on discourse which is easy to track and parse.
- Note that le works not only anaphorically but also cataphorically since "starting from x1 of nei" part.
Exophorics is not yet thought out yet.
Similar constructs
- bi'unai deals with already given information but doesn't count sumti back
- ri does count sumti back but not semantically.
- di'u doesn't deal with sumti