From cowan  Sat Mar  6 22:45:59 2010
Subject: Re: TECH: observative
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Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 10:45:02 -0500 (EST)
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la .and. cusku di'e

> An observative is
> a bridi with absent x1 - full stop. For absent x-other-than-1 we
> haven't bothered with special names.

Part of the trouble is that the term "observative" has two senses, one
semantic, one syntactic.  In the first sense, it means "sentence with x1
not expressed."  In the second sense, it means "sentence with no terms
before the selbri".  These often coincide, but not always.

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