Return-Path: Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0tK8CJ-0000ZVC; Mon, 27 Nov 95 20:22 EET Message-Id: Received: from listmail.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id 29EFF425 ; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 19:22:32 +0100 Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 13:31:31 -0500 Reply-To: John Cowan Sender: Lojban list From: John Cowan Subject: Re: from the paper archives - pc on abstractors and tense X-To: Lojban List To: Veijo Vilva In-Reply-To: <199511261340.IAA21188@locke.ccil.org> from "ucleaar" at Nov 26, 95 01:28:41 pm Content-Length: 577 Lines: 12 > My criticism of {mue}/{puo}/{zahi}/{zuo} is only that the traditional > system of 4 situation types has been cast in stone by privileging > them with their own cmavo. The system is certainly useful descriptively, > but it is underlain by a different, simpler and more revealing system > - or so I think and so others think, even if people differ on the details > of their preferred analysis. Enlighten us, {doi febvi logji prenu}. What is this underlying system? -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban.