Message-ID: <348C116F.F0D@locke.ccil.org> Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 10:25:35 -0500 From: John Cowan Organization: Lojban Peripheral X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lojban List Subject: CAha (was: partial instantiations) References: <199712060123.UAA11882@locke.ccil.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Content-Length: 575 X-From-Space-Date: Mon Dec 08 16:01:57 1997 X-From-Space-Address: - la xorxes. cusku di'e > And: > >[I don't know what the difference between ca`a and pu`i is.] > > Something to do with tenses, I suppose: {ca'a} contains an > implied {ca} and {pu'i} an implied {pu}. Well, in a sense. But "pu'i" really means "At time T, subject S has demonstrated the potential of being/doing P" whereas "ca'a" means "At time T, subject S is being/doing P". In principle, one might demonstrate the potential for eating without actually having done so in the past. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban