Return-Path: Received: from kantti.helsinki.fi by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0ry0uQ-0009acC; Sun, 9 Apr 95 20:36 EET DST Received: from fiport.funet.fi (fiport.funet.fi [128.214.109.150]) by kantti.helsinki.fi (8.6.11p1+Emil1.1/8.6.5) with ESMTP id UAA29697 for ; Sun, 9 Apr 1995 20:36:24 +0300 Received: from LISTSERV.FUNET.FI (LISTSERV@FIPORT) by FIPORT.FUNET.FI (PMDF V4.3-13 #2494) id <01HP567MFFZ4006WU7@FIPORT.FUNET.FI>; Sun, 09 Apr 1995 17:36:12 +0200 (EET) Date: Sat, 08 Apr 1995 20:57:21 -0400 (EDT) From: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU Subject: TECH: Summary of proposals wanting of definition. Sender: Lojban list To: Veijo Vilva Reply-to: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU Message-id: <01HP567QR1DO006WU7@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: 1845 Lines: 49 A couple of months ago Lojbab asked me to make a summary of all the proposals that have been discussed lately that need a final decision. I don't claim that this list is complete, if your favourite proposal is missing please let me know. I have divided the issues into three groups: A. Cmavo/rafsi additions. A-1. Add re'u as the ordinal ROI. A-2. Add xo'u as the leap-to-outside-prenex marker, I suppose in selma'o UI. (Made by pc & And.) A-3. Add te'i for tense offset magnitude, I'm not sure in what selma'o. (Made by Goran.) A-4. Add xa'e as lambda marker in slema'o PA. (Made by John.) A-5. Add jaz as a rafsi for jai B. Grammar extensions. B-1. Allow {bo} as afterthought sumti connector. (The forethought form already exists.) B-2. Allow {gi} as afterthough bridi-tail connector. (The forethought form already exists.) B-3. Allow JA wherever JOI is allowed. B-4. Add xu'o of selma'o XUhO to allow multiple embedded fronted relative clauses. (Made by Veijo.) C. Changes in interpretation. C-1. Change interpretation of ZI and VA as sumti tcita so that the tagged sumti is the magnitude instead of the starting point. C-2. Use ke'a as the lambda variable in addition to its usual role in relative clauses. C-3. Interpret {30ji'i40} as "around 30 or 40". Almost none of these proposals affect any existing text, since they mostly involve extensions. The only exception might be C-1, but even then the only affected cmavo is {vi}, which already behaves anomalously anyway. Some of them are different proposals to solve the same problem, so it wouldn't make sense to accept them both. These are A-3/C-1 and A-4/C-2. In other posts I provide arguments for some (not all) of these proposals. Jorge