From LOJBAN%CUVMB.bitnet@YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU Sat Mar 6 22:59:45 2010 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Wed, 20 Jan 1993 17:34:00 -0500 Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 2400; Wed, 20 Jan 93 17:32:44 EST Received: from CUVMB.BITNET by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 2299; Wed, 20 Jan 93 17:27:12 EST Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 11:59:30 -0500 Reply-To: John Cowan Sender: Lojban list From: John Cowan Subject: Bootstrap Lojban: a preliminary outline for the textbook X-To: Lojban List To: Erik Rauch Status: RO X-Status: X-From-Space-Date: Wed Jan 20 06:59:30 1993 X-From-Space-Address: @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Message-ID: <0W6bGKF760.A.mOC.h70kLB@chain.digitalkingdom.org> The following is a preliminary outline for the Lojban textbook, tentatively titled "Bootstrap Lojban." I have been working on copy-editing the existing materials to produce a correct and usable (but far from complete) prototype, hopefully to be published later this year after the proto- dictionary. The symbol * represents a section planned but not yet written; the symbol # represents a section written but possibly to be removed. All comments are solicited. Part I represents the latest (not distributed) draft; Part II represents the bulk of the distributed 1989 draft textbook. Part I: What Is Lojban? Chapter 0: Introduction To Lojban Chapter 1: The Basic Structure Of Lojban 1.1 Relationship Sentences 1.2 Lojban Relation Words 1.3 Relationship Ideas 1.4 Relationship Expressions 1.5 Place Structures & Ellipsis 1.6 Descriptions using bridi 1.7 Modification Phrases as selbri 1.8 Grouping In Longer Tanru # 1.9 Lojban - An Unambiguous Language 1.10 Where's The Selbri? * 1.11 Conversion * 1.12 Questions * 1.13 Abstractions * 1.14 What Comes Next? * 1.15 Summary * 1.16 Word List Part II: Learning Lojban Chapter 2: Pronunciation 2.1 How To Pronounce Lojban 2.2 Writing Lojban 2.3 Lojban Phonology 2.4 Sample Words & Pronunciations Chapter 3: Names & Vocatives 3.1 Forming Lojban Names 3.2 Sample Names 3.3 Exercise Chapter 4: Conversation 4.1 Questions 4.2 Quotations 4.3 Oops! 4.4 Commands 4.5 Example Dialogues 4.6 Activities Chapter 5: Place Structures 5.1 All Places Are Created Equal 5.2 What Is The Place Structure Of...? 5.3 Color brivla 5.4 Assumptions About Place Structures 5.5 So What Do I Do? 5.6 The Places That Aren't Specified 5.7 Places That Aren't In The Place Structure 5.8 Exercise Chapter 6: bridi 6.1 zo'e 6.2 Observative bridi 6.3 vau & Elision 6.4 Conversion 6.5 Negation 6.6 Description with le 6.7 Examples Chapter 7: Attitudinal Indicators 7.1 Common Attitudes 7.2 Attitude Questions 7.3 Examples Chapter 8: Abstraction 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Events & States 8.3 Properties 8.4 Amounts 8.5 Nested Abstractions 8.6 Elliptical Abstractions 8.7 Exercise Chapter 9: Numbers 9.1 Simple Numbers 9.2 boi 9.3 terbasna In cmavo Strings 9.4 Number Description 9.5 Counting 9.6 Numbers As Names 9.7 Some Extra Digits # 9.8 pi & pi'e 9.9 Telling Time & Dates 9.10 ni'u & ma'u # 9.11 ki'o 9.12 Activities 9.13 Exercise 9.14 Non-Numerical Quantifiers 9.15 Number Questions 9.16 Quantified Descriptions 9.17 Activity: A Song Chapter 10: Questions 10.1 Review Of Questions 10.2 Yes-No Questions 10.3 Dialogue Activity 10.4 A Boring Story Chapter 11: tanru 11.1 What Is A tanru? 11.2 3 Or More Place tanru 11.3 ke & ke'e 11.4 tanru And Metaphor 11.5 Family Relationships 11.6 Activity 11.7 Homework Activity Chapter 12: Tense 12.1 Simple Tense In Lojban 12.2 Tense-Labeled sumti 12.3 Ellipsis Of The Modifier sumti 12.4 One More Ellipsis 12.5 How About Space Location? 12.6 Tenseless bridi: The Ultimate Ellipsis 12.7 Determining The Elliptical Value 12.8 Story Time 12.9 Elliptical Location Tenses Chapter 13: Elision 13.1 When Is Elision Possible? 13.2 Elision Of vau 13.3 Elision Of li'u & le'u 13.4 Elision Of boi 13.5 Elision Of ke'e 13.6 Elision Of kei 13.7 Elision Of ku 13.8 Omission Of cu 13.9 Summary 13.10 Substitution Drill 13.11 Exercise 13.12 Story: The Accident Chapter 14: Relative Clauses 14.1 Limitations Of Simple Description 14.2 Identifying Descriptions 14.3 poi 14.4 ke'a 14.5 Identity bridi 14.6 po'u 14.7 The ko'a Series 14.8 goi 14.9 po & po'e 14.10 pe 14.11 Example Dialogue 14.12 da 14.13 da poi 14.14 Activity Chapter 15: Descriptions 15.1 Possessives & Tensed sumti 15.2 Descriptive Vocatives & Names 15.3 Turning Lojban Words Into Names 15.4 Veridical Descriptions 15.5 lo 15.6 Quantification Of lo Descriptions 15.7 Indefinite Descriptions 15.8 Mass Descriptions 15.9 Specified Descriptions 15.10 Non-Restrictive Relative Clauses & Phrases 15.11 Examples 15.12 Story: The Date 15.13 Assigned Composition: Self-Description 15.14 Exercise Chapter 16: Pro-sumti 16.1 First & Second Person 16.2 Quantification Of Pro-sumti 16.3 Back-Counting Pro-sumti 16.4 Subscripts 16.5 Story Chapter 17: Labeled sumti 17.1 Numbered sumti 17.2 Numbered sumti Questions 17.3 Comparatives 17.4 The Nature Of sumti tcita 17.5 Superlatives 17.6 Causality In Lojban 17.7 Causality sumti Labels 17.8 -nai 17.9 Reading Text 17.10 Assigned Composition -- John Cowan cowan@snark.thyrsus.com ...!uunet!cbmvax!snark!cowan e'osai ko sarji la lojban.