2010/2/25 Jorge Llambías <jjllamb...@gmail.com>: > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Sam Chapin <not.here....@gmail.com> wrote: >> Minimiscience's view is the one described in chapter 10 of the online >> draft reference grammar. Is this other reimagining of ZI and VA widely >> used? > > I use it a lot, and I have seen others use it. I think it is used more > than the CLL version, except perhaps for "vi", which is sometimes used > as if it meant "bu'u". > >> It breaks the {<tag> broda} == {<tag> ku broda} identity that >> holds for everything else. > > How so? That identity holds for both versions.
Ah, I see. Under your scheme {va co'e} conveys the same meaning by a different mechanism - "something happens a moderate (but otherwise unspecified) distance from the speaker", rather than "something happens a moderate distance away from (unspecified, but by default) the speaker".