Return-Path: Message-Id: From: cowan (John Cowan) Subject: Re: Response to Six Messages To: lojban-list Date: Wed, 12 Jun 91 11:44:02 EDT In-Reply-To: <9106112350.AA26579@euphemia.math.ucla.edu>; from "math.ucla.edu!jimc" at Jun 11, 91 4:50 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.2 PL13] Status: RO X-From-Space-Date: Wed Jun 12 11:44:52 1991 X-From-Space-Address: cowan la djim. kartr. cusku di'e: > (Msg 3) Alternative #1: Athelstan (?) objects to this line of evolution: > > gau mi galfi le bitmu (bridi) > le jai gau galfi be *fi* le bitmu (similar sumti) > > However, this is bogus because the first sentence should have been > > gau mi galfi *fe* le bitmu (bridi should be) > > (since the original x1 is vacant). So in both situations the user has > to jump over a place. The change from fe to fi is simply a consequence > of shifting x1-x5 to x2-x6, presumably a tolerable change. Assuming you > come up with a placelink for x6. The "fe" would be correct, but is not needed. The original bridi is an observative, as I noted in an earlier message: the x1 place is known to be empty because there are no (untagged) sumti before the selbri. x6 has a place marker, if needed: "faxixa" = "fa-sub-6". (I note with pleasure that you are using "placelink" for FA instead of "caselink", but I still find the term "link" confusing in this context: what is supposed to be linked to what?) -- cowan@snark.thyrsus.com ...!uunet!cbmvax!snark!cowan e'osai ko sarji la lojban