Subject: TECH: PROPOSED GRAMMAR CHANGE 2$i
To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 20:44:45 -0500 (EST)
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24]
Content-Type: text
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
Content-Length: 3351
Lines: 94
Message-ID: <GM2JXss0M-N.A.zsG.9v0kLB@chain.digitalkingdom.org>

Content-Length: 3320
Lines: 91

Content-Length: 3288
Lines: 88

CHANGE 42

CURRENT LANGUAGE:

Lojban uses the same words (TAhE/ROI and ZAhO) for space interval modifiers
as for time interval modifiers.  However, they are distinguished with a
"fe'e" flag proceeding any such modifiers.  The rules for multiple
modifiers are that two ZAhOs may be consecutive but two TAhE/ROIs may not.
This rule applies to both time and space.  Once a modifier has been
given, an interval size cannot follow it.  So the following is not grammatical:

	mi ze'a reroi ze'i klama
	I [medium interval] [twice] [short interval] go
	Over a medium period I go twice for a short period each.

PROPOSED CHANGE:

Allow mixtures of ZEhA [PU], TAhE, ROI, and ZAhO for time; and VEhA [PU],
VIhA, FEhE+TAhE, FEhE+ROI, and FEhE+ZAhO for space.  Note that each of
the space interval modifiers must be flagged if there is more than one.

As a side effect, space information may now precede time information
in a tense.

RATIONALE:

Simplicity and uniformity, plus the ability to specify the size of
subintervals.


3c3
<      THIS DRAFT ALSO INCORPORATES CHANGE PROPOSALS 1-40 DATED 6 JANUARY 1996
---
>      THIS DRAFT ALSO INCORPORATES CHANGE PROPOSALS 1-42 DATED 6 JANUARY 1996
19c19
<   grammar.240
---
>   grammar.242
1451a1452
>                         |  space_1040  time_1030
1534,1536c1535,1537
<                         |  interval_modifier_1050
<                         |  ZEhA_622  interval_modifier_1050
<                         |  ZEhA_622  time_direction_1035  interval_modifier_1050
---
>                         |  time_int_props_1036
>                         |  ZEhA_622  time_int_props_1036
>                         |  ZEhA_622  time_direction_1035  time_int_props_1036
1542a1544,1547
> time_int_props_1036     :  interval_property_1051
>                         |  time_int_props_1036  interval_property_1051
>                         ;
> 
1575,1576c1580,1581
<                         |  FEhE_530  interval_modifier_1050
<                         |  space_intval_A_1047  FEhE_530  interval_modifier_1050
---
>                         |  space_int_props_1049
>                         |  space_intval_A_1047  space_int_props_1049
1578c1583
<                                   FEhE_530  interval_modifier_1050
---
>                                   space_int_props_1049
1590a1596,1599
> space_int_props_1049    :  FEhE_530  interval_property_1051
>                         |  space_int_props_1049  FEhE_530 interval_property_1051
>                         ;
> 
1600,1604d1608
< interval_modifier_1050  :  interval_property_1051
<                         |  interval_property_1051  event_mod_1052
<                         |  event_mod_1052
<                         ;
< 
1608a1613,1614
>                         |  ZAhO_621
>                         |  ZAhO_621  NAI_581
1621,1630d1626
< 
< event_mod_1052          :  event_mod_A_1053
<                         |  event_mod_1052  event_mod_A_1053
<                         ;
< 
< event_mod_A_1053        :  ZAhO_621
<                         |  ZAhO_621  NAI_581
<                         |  ZAhO_621  interval_property_1051
<                         |  ZAhO_621  NAI_581  interval_property_1051
<                         ;