X-Digest-Num: 33 Message-ID: <44114.33.115.959273824@eGroups.com> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 22:24:45 +0100 From: Lionel Bonnetier Subject: Origin of potentiality and capability modals X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 115 Content-Length: 392 Lines: 15 A friend of mine working on semantic representation in software is now on the deeper meaning of the auxiliary verbs in English. I'm interested in knowing whether the modals ka'e, nu'o, pu'i (especially the latter) all have equivalents in some natural languages, or were coined for Lojban. Thank you. Happy new year! Lionel ~~~~~ Lionel Bonnetier ~~~~~ leo@easynet.fr ~~~~~