From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Mon Apr 16 13:51:36 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_2); 16 Apr 2001 20:51:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 11004 invoked from network); 16 Apr 2001 20:51:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 16 Apr 2001 20:51:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta2 with SMTP; 16 Apr 2001 20:51:20 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 14pFxv-0007Ep-00 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 13:51:19 -0700 Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 13:51:19 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: -gua!spi (was Re: [lojban] Three more issues) Message-ID: <20010416135119.T13826@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: <200104161418.f3GEIFP31641@hobbiton.org> <3ADB1FD7.4090900@reutershealth.com> <20010416131318.R13826@digitalkingdom.org> <3ADB581E.5020709@reutershealth.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.17i In-Reply-To: <3ADB581E.5020709@reutershealth.com>; from jcowan@reutershealth.com on Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 04:37:50PM -0400 From: Robin Lee Powell X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 6594 On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 04:37:50PM -0400, John Cowan wrote: > Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > >> Those are *believed* to be *the most common* lujvo-making patterns. > >> No such claim of exclusivity is possible, as the chapter on lujvo-making > >> is at pains to point out. There are exceptional patterns. > >> (If you want -gua!spi, you know where to find it.) > > In fact at http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc/guaspi/ > > > I know very little about -gua!spi, save that it's tonal. What about the > > language are you making reference to here? > > From http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc/guaspi/acmpaper.txt > > There are three main patterns to the compounds. > First, if the main word has a case with a default linker of > "vo" [Lojban nu] or "bi" [Lojban du'u] --- that is, a > case for an infinitive --- a word compounded with high even tone > [written -] is the predicate of that infinitive, and the main > word case before the infinitive (before conversion) becomes the > infinitive's first case. (Exceptions are noted in the > dictionary.) Looks like it's got common forms and exceptions, just like lojban. Am I missing something? -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/