From cowan Wed Nov 22 09:53:25 1995 Subject: Re: vuo From: John Cowan To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu (Lojban List) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 09:53:25 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <199511211831.NAA21355@locke.ccil.org> from "ucleaar" at Nov 21, 95 06:15:49 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 677 Status: OR Message-ID: 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. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban.