From LOJBAN%CUVMB.bitnet@YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU Sat Mar 6 22:54:52 2010 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Thu, 18 Mar 1993 11:16:11 -0500 Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 4043; Thu, 18 Mar 93 11:15:01 EST Received: from CUVMB.BITNET by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 8678; Thu, 18 Mar 93 11:15:19 EST Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1993 13:42:43 +0000 Reply-To: ucleaar@UCL.AC.UK Sender: Lojban list From: Mr Andrew Rosta Subject: Re: Comments from pc on various issues X-To: lojban@cuvma.BITNET, John Cowan To: Erik Rauch In-Reply-To: (Your message of Mon, 15 Mar 93 15:27:42 EST.) <9303160000.AA112931@link-1.ts.bcc.ac.uk> Status: O X-From-Space-Date: Thu Mar 18 13:42:43 1993 X-From-Space-Address: @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Message-ID: John Cowan: > 2) I am now engaged in writing the paper on anaphora. pc agrees that this > term has been wildly overextended in the past. Only the ri-series and > the go'i-series are truly anaphora (because only they create repetition -- > the literal meaning of the word). Most other KOhA and GOhA cmavo are in > fact "deixis" -- they point to something, rather than repeating something. > This includes the "di'u" and "di'e" series, which point to things in the > linguistic stream rather than in the Real World, but nonetheless point. Would anyone be willing to explain these (ri-series, go'i series, KOHA, GOHA)? I was trying to puzzle it out in the context of the ckafybarja commentary in the latest ju'i lobypli, but couldn't. (God knows how one is supposed to learn what the ri-series is: do some people have access to anything more informative than a BNF grammar and a cmavo list that has cmavo descriptions of only two or three words?) ----- And