Date: Fri, 19 Feb 93 11:05:23 -0500
From: lojbab@grebyn.com (Logical Language Group)
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To: cowan@snark.thyrsus.com, nsn@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au
Subject: first attempt at a proto-dictionary outline
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Following is my first attempt at a dictionary outline, with estimated
page counts.  I'm including Nick in this, since he is doing lujvo, and place
structure paper, and he may have input on those sections (as well as
general comments on the rest).  

Not everything here may make it into the first edition, due to time and
space considerations, however, there may also be things missing, and I haven't
been padding the estimates, even though most things we produce exceed the
original page count estimates.  Thus the dictionary may end up being two
volumes in order to be perfect bound and hold together - in which case the
split is obvious between a reference book and a dictionary proper.  Certainly
by any second edition, when we have expanded lujvo definitions for all
lujvo, many more lujvo, and more English entries per lujvo, the dictionary p
propoer will have to be a separate book.

Lojban Proto-Reference Book - Preliminary Outline 2/19/93
with estimated page counts by section

3    Table of Contents
     Intro
3            About Lojban
2            About this book
     Lojban Orthography
1            Letters and symbols
1            optional conventions
1                    Cyrillic Lojban
1|           compounds
 |           text layout
     Lojban Phonology
2            consonants
1            permissible initials
1            permissible medials
2            vowels, diphthongs, divowels
2|           syllables
 |           hyphen
 |           buffering
1            stress
1|           rhythm, phrasing
 |           intonation
     Lojban Morphology
1            Summary of types and how to tell them apaprt
1|           cmene
 |           cmavo
 |                   V
 |                   VV
 |                   CV
 |                   CVV
1|           brivla
 |                   gismu
1|                   lujvo
 |                           rafsi
4|                           lujvo-making algorithm/tosmabru
2|                           scoring/choice of form
1|                   le'avla
 |                   le'avla lujvo
2            resolver algorithm
     Syntax
2            About the E-BNF
3                    *E-BNF
1                    *selma'o/terminal index
8            About the YACC Grammar
1                    Parser algorithm
20                   *YACC Grammar
8                    *selma'o/terminal index
             selma'o
1                    *selma'o list
20                           *short alphabetical definition, subcategories with
                                     cmavo in each subcategory
             terminals
20                   *terminal list, definition, examples of each type?
     Lexicon
             The formation of gismu
3                    Lojbanizing rules used
45                   *composite gismu etymologies
1                    *cultural gismu
1|                   *metric gismu
 |                   *internal gismu
             Place structures of gismu
30                   *Lojban gismu (rafsi, definition) Lojban order
35                   *gismu keywords - keywords/phrases for each place by gismu
35                           *Lojban and English order (no place structures)
             cmavo
10                   * cmavo in Lojban order
10                   * cmavo in selma'o/subtype/alphabetical order
5                    * cmavo compounds typically written as one word
8                    * non-Lojban alphabet and symbol set conventions
1                    * unassigned cmavo
2                    * experimental cmavo
1            Use of BAI to add places/cases
                     *list of BAIs typically used to add cases
1            Assignment of rafsi
8                    *rafsi, by type, alphabetically
8                    *rafsi, pure alphabetical
10           place structures of lujvo
45                   *lujvo actually in use - ~1800
                     *proposed lujvo  (possibly intermingled with preceding)
45                           systematically created (se/te/ve/xe/nu/ka/ni/ri'a/gau/pre
                                ~3000
                             Eaton/TLI lists (heavily weeded and edited)
22                              ~1500
                             collected old proposals
15                              ~1000
1            Lojbanizing of names
3                    *some personal names
3                    *some country/language names
             le'avla
3                    types of le'avla
1                    the culture word issue
3                    *cultural le'avla
3                    *some food items
3                    *some plants/animals
3                    *element words
198  *Lojban order dictionary ??? (composed of all preceding lists)
        gismu(25),cmavo(20),rafsi(8),names(6),le'avla(12),lujvo(127)
310  *English-order dictionary
        gismuX5,cmavoX2,names,le'avla,lujvo

     Thesaurus
             systems of categorization
4                    *Roget's/Athelstan/Lojbab
4                    *Carter
4                    *Cowan
40           *gismu to category for each type
30           *category to gismu for each type
10           *English-order cross-index of categories

30   *Glossary of Lojban/Linguistic Terminology

     Appendix - Correspondences with historical TLI Loglan
2    Alternate Orthography for Lojban
     Lojban gismu correspondence to historical TLI Loglan gismu and lujvo
12      *Lojban gismu order
8       *historical Loglan gismu order
     Lojban selma'o correspondene to historical TLI Loglan selma'o
1       *Lojban selma'o order
1       *historical Loglan selma'o order
     Lojban cmavo correspondence to historical TLI Loglan cmavo
10      *Lojban cmavo order
6       *historical Loglan cmavo order

6    Index
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1087pg

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