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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 16:36:53 EST
From: Pycyn@aol.com
Subject: Re: gasnu
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I think that Lojban (following Loglan in this as so much else) follows -- in 
a minor way -- the English (etc.) habit of splitting up event descriptions 
into agent and action: English for - to constructions for example, making the 
agent appear as a separate argument.  This pattern preceded the 
subject-raising grammar Lojban now has (I am not sure about Loglan).  Of 
course, the English is a kind of subject raising mark -- except that it does 
not adequately warn against quantification.  But the fact that x3 is 
redundant is more or less what led me to suggest that x3 might mean the agent 
in x1, which we are more apt to want to raise and where the redundancy is 
less obvious.
pc