Return-Path: <@FINHUTC.HUT.FI:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET> Received: from kantti.helsinki.fi by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0rI9o4-00007DC; Thu, 15 Dec 94 08:36 EET Received: from fiport.funet.fi (fiport.funet.fi [128.214.109.150]) by kantti.helsinki.fi (8.6.9/8.6.5) with ESMTP id IAA12409 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 1994 08:36:50 +0200 Received: from FINHUTC.HUT.FI (MAILER@FINHUTC) by FIPORT.FUNET.FI (PMDF V4.3-7 #2494) id <01HKNVMB0TOW0009WF@FIPORT.FUNET.FI>; Thu, 15 Dec 1994 06:35:51 EET Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (NJE origin MAILER@SEARN) by FINHUTC.HUT.FI (LMail V1.1d/1.7f) with BSMTP id 3698; Thu, 15 Dec 1994 08:37:00 +0200 Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (NJE origin LISTSERV@SEARN) by SEARN.SUNET.SE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 4375; Thu, 15 Dec 1994 07:33:40 +0100 Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1994 01:34:34 -0500 From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: Q-kau Sender: Lojban list To: Veijo Vilva Reply-to: Logical Language Group Message-id: <01HKNVMBOTMU0009WF@FIPORT.FUNET.FI> X-Envelope-to: veion@XIRON.PC.HELSINKI.FI Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-To: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU X-cc: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 638 Lines: 16 Jorge: >What is so malglico about kau? I like it very much, and I don't think >we can drop it. I believe that it is malglico, or at leats malropno, to label such things as "questions", indirect or otherwise. Let's let Veijo and Ken Shan (or Cowan with his Chinese linguist hat on) tell us about indirection in Finnish, Japanese, and Chinese. BTW, I am also interested in how a language with totally free word order handles the quantificational problems. Esperanto claims to have totally free word order - how does it deal with "Everybody loves somebody" with object first? Any other order-free languages provide insights? lojbab