Return-Path: Delivered-To: shoulson-kli@meson.org Received: (qmail 6231 invoked from network); 15 May 2000 15:37:45 -0000 Received: from zash.lupine.org (205.186.156.18) by pi.meson.org with SMTP; 15 May 2000 15:37:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 5204 invoked by uid 40001); 15 May 2000 15:38:19 -0000 Delivered-To: kli-mark@kli.org Received: (qmail 5201 invoked from network); 15 May 2000 15:38:19 -0000 Received: from hp.egroups.com (208.50.144.93) by zash.lupine.org with SMTP; 15 May 2000 15:38:19 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-44114-2741-mark=kli.org@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.10.35] by hp.egroups.com with NNFMP; 15 May 2000 15:38:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 2471 invoked from network); 15 May 2000 15:38:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m1.onelist.org with QMQP; 15 May 2000 15:38:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta1 with SMTP; 15 May 2000 15:38:11 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@skunk.reutershealth.com [204.243.9.153]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA14856 for ; Mon, 15 May 2000 11:38:09 -0400 (EDT) Sender: cowan@mail.reutershealth.com Message-ID: <39200CB4.654A7828@reutershealth.com> Organization: Reuters Health Information X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.5-15 i686) X-Accept-Language: en To: "lojban@onelist.com" References: <99.4d011f7.2651715c@aol.com> From: John Cowan MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list lojban@egroups.com; contact lojban-owner@egroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list lojban@egroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 10:41:56 -0400 Subject: Re: [lojban] RECORD: another negative Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1171 Lines: 31 pycyn@aol.com wrote: > > {na} is a wide-scope negative, that is, its scope is the entire bridi in > which it occurs, > regardless of where it occurs in that bridi. Semantically you are right, but syntactically "na" is permitted only just before the selbri. > And wide-scope includes also > the prenex. > Thus {da na broda} = {na da broda}= {da broda na}={na su'o da zo'u da broda}. "na da broda" and "da broda na" are ungrammatical. If I heard them, I would suppose that someone was incorrectly eliding "ku" from "naku" and interpret them as "naku". -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Up to 60% OFF food! Buy Now and Shipping is Free. http://click.egroups.com/1/4016/3/_/17627/_/958405093/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com