From: Logical Language Group Message-Id: <199407111530.AA06084@access2.digex.net> Subject: Re: sumti categories To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu Date: Mon, 11 Jul 1994 11:30:32 -0400 (ADT) Cc: lojbab@access.digex.net (Logical Language Group) In-Reply-To: <199407071901.AA25918@nfs2.digex.net> from "Colin Fine" at Jul 7, 94 04:50:10 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 929 Status: RO X-From-Space-Date: Mon Jul 11 11:30:52 1994 X-From-Space-Address: lojbab la kolin. cusku di'e > I agree with you about 'plant' - but I suspect that such categories will > be useful for machine checking and parsing - but not about Mass. I > believe that mass/set/individual is one of the fundamental grammatical > distinctions of Lojban, and is important even if it is comparatively > rarely specified for a terbri. I suspect that nothing is -mass, since any individual may be seen as a mass. Most things are %mass, and some are +mass (notably gunme, casnu). > For example, I am quite unsure as to the features of 'banxa'. Consider the > feature +/- concrete. Like Jorge, I believe that "banxa" is -concrete, and that the bank branch is a "banxydinju". This may be influenced because I work for, but not in, a bank, and in fact think of the bank branches as rather peripheral parts of the bank-entity. -- John Cowan sharing account for now e'osai ko sarji la lojban.