Return-Path: <@FINHUTC.HUT.FI:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET> Received: from FINHUTC.hut.fi by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0qNNLZ-000021C; Mon, 11 Jul 94 18:32 EET DST Message-Id: Received: from FINHUTC.HUT.FI by FINHUTC.hut.fi (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 0868; Mon, 11 Jul 94 18:31:43 EET Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (NJE origin MAILER@SEARN) by FINHUTC.HUT.FI (LMail V1.1d/1.7f) with BSMTP id 0866; Mon, 11 Jul 1994 18:31:43 +0200 Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (NJE origin LISTSERV@SEARN) by SEARN.SUNET.SE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 8737; Mon, 11 Jul 1994 17:30:57 +0200 Date: Mon, 11 Jul 1994 11:30:32 -0400 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: sumti categories X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Veijo Vilva In-Reply-To: <199407071901.AA25918@nfs2.digex.net> from "Colin Fine" at Jul 7, 94 04:50:10 pm Content-Length: 954 Lines: 22 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.