From cowan Mon Apr 22 12:50:04 1991 Return-Path: Message-Id: From: cowan (John Cowan) Subject: Performative To: lojban-list Date: Mon, 22 Apr 91 12:49:03 EDT In-Reply-To: <9104191549.AA01199@luna.math.ucla.edu>; from "math.ucla.edu!jimc" at Apr 19, 91 8:49 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.2 PL13] Status: RO jimc@math.ucla.edu (Jim Carter) writes: > Lojban has a performative aspect marker or sumti-tcita, doesn't it? Not quite. The performative marker in Lojban is an "evidential" (formerly known as an "evidential", a term we're dropping because it's easily confused with "observative"). It is "ca'e", which indicates that the reason for the truth of the utterance is the speaker's definition. "ca'e", like the other evidentials, has the free grammar of an indicator. ca'e doxipa speni doxire soivo'evo'a (I define!) You-sub-1 are-married-to you-sub-2 and-vice-versa. "soivoe'vo'a" literally means "reciprocally (soi) between the 2nd place of this bridi (vo'e) and the 1st place of this bridi (vo'a)." The complete list of evidentials is: ba'a UI I anticipate I expect - I experience - I remember ba'acu'i * I experience I expect - I experience - I remember ba'anai * I remember I expect - I experience - I remember ca'e UI I define evidential: I define ju'a UI I state evidential: non-specific basis ju'e UI I conclude evidential: I conclude ka'u UI I know culturally evidential: I know by cultural means pe'i UI I opine evidential: I opine ru'a UI I postulate evidential: I postulate se'o UI I know internally I know by dream, revelation, etc. su'a UI I generalize evidential: generalize - concretize su'anai * I particularize evidential: abstract - particular ti'e UI I hear evidential: I hear za'a UI I observe evidential: I observe -- cowan@snark.thyrsus.com ...!uunet!cbmvax!snark!cowan e'osai ko sarji la lojban