Return-Path: Received: from kantti.helsinki.fi by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0rIOSg-00007DC; Fri, 16 Dec 94 00:15 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 AAA18882 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 1994 00:15:45 +0200 Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (MAILER@SEARN) by FIPORT.FUNET.FI (PMDF V4.3-7 #2494) id <01HKOSFEAOJ4000C2O@FIPORT.FUNET.FI>; Thu, 15 Dec 1994 22:14:47 EET Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (NJE origin LISTSERV@SEARN) by SEARN.SUNET.SE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 6631; Thu, 15 Dec 1994 23:12:14 +0100 Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1994 17:06:47 -0500 From: "Mark E. Shoulson" Subject: Re: scope of zo In-reply-to: <199412151919.OAA02915@cs.columbia.edu> (message from ucleaar on Thu, 15 Dec 1994 19:06:09 +0000) Sender: Lojban list To: Veijo Vilva Reply-to: "Mark E. Shoulson" Message-id: <01HKOSFEXE1Y000C2O@FIPORT.FUNET.FI> X-Envelope-to: veion@XIRON.PC.HELSINKI.FI Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 726 Lines: 23 >Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1994 19:06:09 +0000 >From: ucleaar >X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu >> zo mav rafsi zo mavji >What distinguishes this from > zo mavrafsi zo mavji ... "zo" has as its scope the next lojban-parsable "word" Now, had this been pronounced "zomavRAFsizoMAVji", yes, that would have to poarsed as "zo mavrafsi zo majvi" (well, zo ma vrafsi zo mavji, since mavrafsi fails tosmabru, as you said). Luckily, this is printed text, so we know where the word-breaks are. Were this said in speech, "mav", lexically a cmene, would have to be followed by a pause. Writing a . is optional; the author simply didn't do so here. We cope. >--- >And ~mark