User:Gleki/Particle ⟨le⟩ for anaphora, cataphora, exophora
Initially proposed by la gleki:
Proposal:
This proposal is more in line with the actual usage of le.
It relies purely on discourse which is easy to track and parse.
Examples:
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
Note that le works not only anaphorically but also cataphorically since "starting from x1 of dei" part.
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. The rule is that selbri converted to sumti have higher priority than bare selbri like in this example.
{mu|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.
Clearly, those are edge cases since the most common usage of {le} would be {le fetsi} for "she" and similar. 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