Message-Id: <199510130205.WAA28784@locke.ccil.org>
Date:         Fri, 13 Oct 1995 02:27:49 MET
Reply-To: Goran Topic <topic@STUDENT.MATH.HR>
Sender: Lojban list <LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET>
From: Goran Topic <topic@STUDENT.MATH.HR>
Subject:      katna
To: John Cowan <cowan@LOCKE.CCIL.ORG>
Status: OR

> [Note on {katna}: The place structure is strange. The x1 is supposed
> to be the instrument rather than the agent. If we take this seriously
> then {ka'argau} means "x1 uses x2 to cut x3", so you would need to add
> a {fi} in front of {le mi kerfa}. I would prefer to use {katna} as "x1
> cuts x2", and use {sepi'o} if an instrument place is needed.]

A cuts E with I:

Your suggestion:
da katna de sepi'o di

Existing solutions:
gau da di katna de
da ka'argau di de

...both shorter. Why complicate things. The instrument is more basic to
the action of cutting than agent. I can't see a way somebody could cut
something without an implement. (zo'o but then I couldn't see how could
an event be endless.) But I can see a way for an implement to cut
without an agent.

This was illuminating. Up till now it never occured to me to use gau
tag. I think I will use it much now for many of those -gau lujvo. :)

co'o mi'e. goran.


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