From @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Fri Mar 19 15:58:12 1993 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Fri, 19 Mar 1993 11:33:36 -0500 Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 0078; Fri, 19 Mar 93 11:32:24 EST Received: from CUVMB.BITNET by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 0198; Fri, 19 Mar 93 11:33:33 EST Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 15:58:12 GMT Reply-To: C.J.Fine@BRADFORD.AC.UK Sender: Lojban list From: C.J.Fine@BRADFORD.AC.UK Subject: TECH: And's question re anaphora To: Erik Rauch Status: O Message-ID: From: Mr Andrew Rosta > 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?) > The ri-series is in selma'o KOhA, ie pro-sumti. ri = anaphora for the last-mentioned sumti ra = anaphora for a recent sumti ru = anaphora for a long-ago sumti ko'a etc are also in KOhA: ko'a, ko'e, ko'i, ko'o, ko'u, fo'a, fo'e, fo'i, fo'o, fo'u all stand for any sumti you wish. They are typically assigned explicitly by 'goi', and then used repeatedly with constant referent; but in isolated examples, and even sometimes in narrative, people have been using them without assignment. GOhI are pro-bridi: they stand for a whole predication. go'a GOhA recent bridi go'e GOhA penultimate bridi go'i GOhA last bridi go'o GOhA following bridi go'u GOhA earlier bridi nei GOhA current bridi When you use them, they repeat the whole bridi, with all its sumti; but you can override some of the sumti, or reassign anaphora. One of the most common uses is le go'i = 'the x1 of the previous bridi' which in my opinion only works because of the subjectivity of 'le'.