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For example: {{t|sa}} “some” is a determiner, {{t|bỉo}} “…is a cup” is a predicate phrase, and {{t|sa bỉo}} is a noun phrase meaning “some cup(s)”. | For example: {{t|sa}} “some” is a determiner, {{t|bỉo}} “…is a cup” is a predicate phrase, and {{t|sa bỉo}} is a noun phrase meaning “some cup(s)”. | ||
== Determiner particles == | == Determiner particles == | ||
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Additionally, {{tone|2}} can be analyzed as a tonal pseudo-determiner that refers to bound variables, or falls back to "implicitly-bound" {{t|ke X}} if there is no earlier binding. | Additionally, {{tone|2}} can be analyzed as a tonal pseudo-determiner that refers to bound variables, or falls back to "implicitly-bound" {{t|ke X}} if there is no earlier binding. | ||
== Interpretation == | |||
Semantically, grammatical determiners tend to correspond to logical '''quantifiers''' over a now-bound variable, plus an occurence of that variable. For example, the {{t|sa}} determiner corresponds to the <math>\exists</math> quantifier. The tagged predicate phrase doubles both as a ''domain'' and a ''name'' for the variable. | |||
In short, {{t|sa bỉo}} does three things: | |||
# <span style="color:brown">introduces</span> an existentially bound variable {{t|bío}} to the clause; | |||
# <span style="color:chocolate">specifies</span> that it refers to a cup (or some cups: see [[plural logic]]); | |||
# acts in its place in the sentence as an <span style="color:teal">instance</span> of this variable. | |||
<blockquote> | |||
{{t|Hẻaq jí <u>sa bỉo</u>.}}<br> | |||
<math> | |||
{\color{brown} \underbrace{\exists \textsf{bio}:}_{1}} | |||
\; {\color{chocolate} \underbrace{\textrm{Bio}(\textsf{bio}) \mathop\wedge}_{2}} | |||
\; \textrm{Heaq}(\textsf{ji}, | |||
{\color{teal} \underbrace{\textsf{bio}}_{3}} | |||
) | |||
</math><br> | |||
I'm holding some cup(s). | |||
</blockquote> | |||
=== Every, each, all === | === Every, each, all === | ||