From cowan  Sat Mar  6 22:58:01 2010
Subject: Re: vuo
To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu (Lojban List)
From: cowan
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 09:53:25 -0500 (EST)
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la .and. cusku di'e

> But surely one gardenpaths on that. That is, you'd parse it as
> 
>    by e [lua dy] e gy
> 
> until you hit {luu}, and then I guess you'd have to backtrack.
> Or is there some quirk of the grammar of LUhU that says it's not
> elidable before a sumti connective, so that if you want [lua dy] then
> you'd have to say:
> 
>    by e lua dy luu e gy

Essentially yes.  Because LAhE/LUhU form parentheses that enclose a full
sumti, any connectives will be heard as belonging to the enclosed sumti.

> ? And the terminators are not elidable in
> 
>    by e lua lae dy luu e gy luu ne zy

Right.

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John Cowan					cowan@ccil.org
		e'osai ko sarji la lojban.