From - Wed Feb 28 15:42:03 1996 Message-ID: <3134BE1A.1AEE@ccil.org> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 15:42:02 -0500 From: John Cowan Organization: Lojban Peripheral X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lojban List Subject: Re: xelfanva and comments References: <199602271755.MAA25484@locke.ccil.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 810 la kris. cusku di'e > I thought I > remembered someone saying that {gi'e} always works on the top level of the > sentence; i.e. that you couldn't have {lenu x gi'e y kei} because gi'e > would automatically pop you out of the lenu clause. Did I misunderstand? I think you did. "gi'e" works at the bridi level and will pop out of a description, but not out of a subordinate (abstract or relative) bridi. > How does {le teno'a} work inside a termset -- the outer bridi has several > x3's, one > per termset; does it refer to the one inside the termset where {teno'a} is > used? What if {le teno'a} were used outside a termset? A fine question, to which I have no answer, and I doubt if anyone else has one either. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban