From cowan Mon Aug 5 12:05:49 1991 Return-Path: Message-Id: From: cowan (John Cowan) Subject: Re: Two queries To: lojban-list Date: Mon, 5 Aug 91 12:05:13 EDT In-Reply-To: <9107301415.AA16438@relay2.UU.NET>; from "Mark Shoulson" at Jul 30, 91 10:14 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Status: RO > Semantic: We all know that {ke'a} in a subordinate clause refers back to > the sumti being described/restricted. What if you have nested subordinate > clauses and want to use the outer {ke'a} in the inner clause? I mean like: > > mi catlu le nanmu poi do pu tavla le ninmu poi [ke'a] prami ke'a > > The first {ke'a} might be ellipsizable, and maybe this isn't the best > example, but I think you can see the problem. Just saying that {ke'a} is > always the innermost one is not a good answer, I think. Sometimes you want > to lower it one further down. I suspect the best answer is simply to use > subscripting: {ke'axipa} is innermost or just {ke'a}, the next one out is > {ke'axire} and so on. This sound good? Already suggested? Good, and already suggested. Always nice when somebody independently re-derives the same answer: it indicates that the lojbo >Sprachgefuehl< is getting better distributed. -- cowan@snark.thyrsus.com ...!uunet!cbmvax!snark!cowan e'osai ko sarji la lojban