From sentto-44114-1928-mark=kli.org@returns.onelist.com Sat Feb 05 19:38:18 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: shoulson-kli@meson.org Received: (qmail 15910 invoked from network); 5 Feb 2000 19:38:16 -0000 Received: from zash.lupine.org (205.186.156.18) by pi.meson.org with SMTP; 5 Feb 2000 19:38:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 22046 invoked by uid 40001); 5 Feb 2000 19:33:34 -0000 Delivered-To: kli-mark@kli.org Received: (qmail 22043 invoked from network); 5 Feb 2000 19:33:33 -0000 Received: from hm.egroups.com (208.48.218.15) by zash.lupine.org with SMTP; 5 Feb 2000 19:33:33 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-44114-1928-mark=kli.org@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.10.36] by hm.egroups.com with NNFMP; 05 Feb 2000 19:33:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 22086 invoked from network); 5 Feb 2000 19:33:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by 10.1.10.36 with QMQP; 5 Feb 2000 19:33:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO out.newmail.net) (192.117.188.36) by mta1.onelist.com with SMTP; 5 Feb 2000 19:33:30 -0000 Received: from default ([62.0.163.49]) by out.newmail.net ; Sat, 05 Feb 2000 21:35:53 +02:00 To: lojban@onelist.com Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.11) Message-ID: <94981535401@out.newmail.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list lojban@onelist.com; contact lojban-owner@onelist.com Delivered-To: mailing list lojban@onelist.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 21:34:22 +0200 From: "Adam Raizen" Reply-to: araizen@newmail.net Subject: [lojban] 'nai' and .UI and ambiguity Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: "Adam Raizen" Since 'nai' has more uses than just within an indicator phrase, allowing it anywhere would cause ambiguity, since in some cases we wouldn't know whether it's negating an unspecified .UI or serving some other role. Speaking of which, how are we to interpret the pattern broda je ge'e nai brode Does the 'nai' polarly negate the indicator, or does it pick up after the indicator ends and contradictorily negate brode? The parser doesn't answer this by fiat, since it doesn't seem to analyze within the "je ge'e nai" phrase. co'o mi'e adam Adam Raizen araizen@newmail.net ------------------- "Oom, Shmoom!" --David Ben-Gurion --------------------------- ONElist Sponsor ---------------------------- Shop for your Valentine at eGroups. Click Here ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com