goi (was Re: fuzzy bears)

[And Rosta <a.rosta@UCLAN.AC.UK>]

Jorge:
> >Change the example to:
> >
> >         i le ci cribe ku goi ko'a cu sipna
> >         i ko'a vreta le ko'a ckana
> >
> >and I would understand it as saying that the set/group is referent
> >of "ko`a", & therefore that the whole group lies on the whole
> >group`s beds. I.e. a kind of massification.
>
> Yes, I suppose. And the same for {ko'a goi le ci cribe}?
> I don't like having to use {ku}.

Yes.

However, I'm a bit confused about how goi works. If you have X goi Y,
and one or both of them have *already* been assigned a referent, what
happens? Does the referent stay, or is it overridden and replaced by
the new referent?

I had intuitively felt that goi should assign new reference to the
following term (tho I know this isn;t quite how it works officially).

One solution I've been using in text at home is to use ko`a bi`u when
ko`a has not previously been assigned a referent, and ko`a when it is
being used anaphorically.

--And