Re: OT: sorta OT: cases: please help...

On Tuesday, December 11, 2001, at 03:25 , Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> En réponse à Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>:
>
>>> The answer can't be: "me", though that's the indirect object pronoun.
>> It'
>>> s
>>> "(à)? moi". (I'd say "à moi", just to play it safe)
>>>
>> Moi, je le comprends maintenant.  (I can't remember--can you use "le"
>> to
>> refer to a previous sentence?)  :-p  <shaking head>
>
> No, or at least not in everyday use. "Moi, je comprends maintenant"
> without
> object pronoun is enough.
Je vois.  Moi, je comprends *maintenant* maintenant.  :-)  Merci beaucoup.

ObConlang: What do you call methods of referring to previous *sentences*?
Is that a subcategory of deixis?  And how are ways to handle sentences (or
phrases) specifically?  In English it seems to be the humdrum everyday "it"
  or "that," e.g. "I understand it now."

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