<div dir="ltr">Hello Paul,<div><br></div><div>It looks like "do so" is being treated as a "pro-verb", and that seems appropriate to me. Proverbs (like ellipsis) take their interpretation from context. So this says basically that</div>
<div>x6 is doing something, but what that something is needs to be resolved. </div><div><br></div><div>Emily</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Paul Haley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul@haleyai.com" target="_blank">paul@haleyai.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Hi All,<br>
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In the following, it seems that "so" is more of a pronoun than a
preposition (at least it seems "so" to me!).<br>
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I would appreciate your thoughts on getting reasonable logic from
the ERG for this sentence, which is quite interesting when you
also consider quantification...<br>
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Thank you and best regards,<br>
Paul<br>
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