From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Feb 03 10:51:25 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 03 Feb 2006 10:51:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1F561l-0000MO-CU for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 10:51:25 -0800 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.192]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1F561j-0000MG-Gm for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 10:51:25 -0800 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i30so657211wra for ; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 10:51:21 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=tR7V0+yAC638rq7xv68q9Urz3SHz5gp0R/NrUly408ArE+wxtIDK3CwxGNSUOvMHbACOMXsHdU6fR5doFZSAJjNCFidfS89qDMUHp0tg82eeeKTwrdkMIMVj5gzFpUFvba2VNY4mhf9skcz63FaxMGvD9nvwNkiA0HLEvvGwIrE= Received: by 10.54.127.19 with SMTP id z19mr2894133wrc; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 10:51:20 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.126.19 with HTTP; Fri, 3 Feb 2006 10:51:20 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <925d17560602031051q3465368buef5369064e6e48cf@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 15:51:20 -0300 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Llamb=EDas?= To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: fi'o question In-Reply-To: <005101c628d6$06ab7490$a0d2400a@caroe1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Content-Disposition: inline References: <005101c628d6$06ab7490$a0d2400a@caroe1> X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 3039 X-Approved-By: jjllambias@gmail.com X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On 2/3/06, Betsemes wrote: > I have been reading the reference grammar on the section of modals. I had > been wondering if a modal built with fi'o/fe'u might accept arguments for > the other than x1 places this way: > > {mi viska do fi'o kanla be la djan fe'u le zunle} > > Yeah, quite non-sensical example, but it's the example given at chapter 9 > section 5 of the reference grammar with a "be la djan" added. Apparently the > formal grammar listed at chapter 21 supports this even while this is not > mentioned in the text. Is it right? Or am I misreading the YACC code? That's right. {fi'o} takes any selbri, and arguments linked with {be} are part of the selbri. (The terminator {fe'u} is elidable there.) mu'o mi'e xorxes