X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Message-ID: <34D201A1.1DF461C8@locke.ccil.org> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 11:36:49 -0500 From: John Cowan Organization: Lojban Peripheral X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lojban List Subject: Re: goi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From-Space-Date: Fri Jan 30 11:36:50 1998 X-From-Space-Address: - la .and. cusku di'e > However, I'm a bit confused about how goi works. If you have X goi Y, > and one or both of them have *already* been assigned a referent, what > happens? Does the referent stay, or is it overridden and replaced by > the new referent? > > I had intuitively felt that goi should assign new reference to the > following term (tho I know this isn;t quite how it works officially). The order of the terms is not important. Rather, there is a hierarchy, such that the lower sumti in the hierarchy is assigned the same referent as the higher sumti, overriding any referent it may have had. Unassigned KOhA-series cmavo are the lowest, then assigned cmavo, then names, then non-veridical descriptions, then veridical descriptions and numbers (this last class cannot be overridden). -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (FW 16.5)