Auto-hóa (or hóa elision) is a hypothetical rule in which hóa or any other anaphoric pronoun in general may be omitted from a relative clause in certain circumstances, such as in in sa pỏq nïe kúa. An auto-hóa rule is a rule which assigns meanings to these otherwise meaningless clauses, usually by specifying a spot where a covert hóa appears automatically.
The battle of auto-hóa
- TODO: This section is useless information for the everyday Toaqist. Summarize.
Right after an avant-garde rap performance by nuogaı, fagri/Hoaqgıo posted a taxonomy of viable hóa elision proposals. They are enumerated as follows:
The Auto-Hóa Suite, by Hoaqgıo (2020-02-02)
- Required hóa.
- hóa must appear in every relative clause.
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- Semi-required hóa.
- hóa must appear in every relative clause, unless that clause is completely empty, in which case hóa fills the first slot.
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- Lazy initial auto-hóa.
- If hóa does not appear in the relative clause at all, then it is inserted before all of the other arguments.
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- Lazy structural final auto-hóa.
- If hóa does not appear in the relative clause at all, then it is inserted after all of the other arguments at the top level.
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- Eager structural final auto-hóa.
- A hóa is inserted after all of the other arguments at the top-level unless the top-level slots are all filled.
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- Lazy pre-terminator final auto-hóa.
- If a hóa does not appear in the relative clauese at all, it is inserted as an automatic final word in the phrase (e.g., after explicit terminators but before implicit ones).
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- Eager pre-terminator final auto-hóa.
- hóa is inserted as an automatic final word in the phrase (e.g., after explicit terminators but before implicit ones) unless the phrase is full.
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- Hybrid hóa.
- The constructs lú, lü, lủ, and räı could have different rules of hóa. For example, eager initial auto-hóa in häo clauses together with semi-required hóa in lü/lú clauses has been suggested (the auto-hóa form for lú would then be ke häo).
The Auto-Hóa Suite by Hoemaı (2020-05-31)
TODO
uakcitalk’s anti-compromise auto-hóa (2021-09-20)
The Auto-Hóa Matrix (derivative gruël by yours truly uakcitalk; 2021-09-23)
The comprehensive list as presented above exhausts the sensible possibilities for hóa filling; however, given the medium of HTML, we can do one better and arrange the lazy–eager distinction across a matrix:
| implicature-free diehards | lazy (overridable) | eager (forcible) | |||
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| required | semi-required | initial (hóa then arguments) |
lazy initial | eager initial | |
| final | structural final (arguments then hóa) |
lazy structural-final initial | eager structural-final initial | ||
| pre-terminator final (possibly nested terms then hóa) |
lazy pre-terminator-final initial | eager pre-terminator-final initial | |||
| ← hybrid (different rules for räı … hóa, lu … hóa, râı … ja) → | |||||
And this table gives examples (⇒ meanıng ‘turns into’):
| ❌ fä ✅ fä hóa |
✅ fä ⇒ fä hóa | fä á ú ⇒ fä hóa á ú fä á hóa ⇒ (no change) |
fä á ú ⇒ fä hóa á ú fä á hóa ⇒ fä hóa á hóa fä fı á hóa ⇒ (no change) |
| fä â ú ⇒ fä â ú na hóa fä â ú hóa ⇒ (no change) |
fä â ú ⇒ fä â ú na hóa fä â ú hóa ⇒ fä â ú hóa na hóa fä á ú í ⇒ (no change; fä full) | ||
| düa jí gî ⇒ düa jí gî hóa söq jí gî ja na hóa ⇒ (no change) |
düa jí gî ⇒ düa jí gî hóa söq jí gî ja ⇒ (invalid; gı is full) söq jí gî ja na ⇒ söq jí gî ja na hóa | ||
| (for example, say, räq jí ⇒ räq hóa jí, but lü dua jí ⇒ lü dua jí hóa) | |||
Discussion
TODO: poignant summary owo
References