From MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com Thu Feb 17 05:04:59 2005 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 40430 invoked from network); 17 Feb 2005 13:04:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.166) by m23.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 17 Feb 2005 13:04:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.81.49.134) by mta5.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 17 Feb 2005 13:04:58 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1D1lKx-00083z-Ig for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 05:04:55 -0800 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.49.134]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D1lIl-00080J-Hc; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 05:02:39 -0800 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 17 Feb 2005 05:02:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from imo-d03.mx.aol.com ([205.188.157.35]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D1lI5-0007o8-Sd for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 05:01:58 -0800 Received: from MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com by imo-d03.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r3.8.) id d.fc.d0f9957 (16335) for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 08:01:24 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 08:01:23 EST MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_fc.d0f9957.2f45efa3_boundary" X-Mailer: 6.0 sub 12 X-archive-position: 9487 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com X-list: lojban-list To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 64.81.49.134 From: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com Reply-To: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com Subject: [lojban] topicality X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=137764184 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojbaner X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 23856 --part1_fc.d0f9957.2f45efa3_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 2005-02-17 5:21:55 AM Eastern Standard Time, lojbab via ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes: > All places of a predicate are equal. How then is topicality determined? In many languages topicality decreases as one continues speaking a sentence, i.e., it's greater at the beginning of the sentence and decreases toward the end. This scheme would work well, I think, for Lojban, too, since it's easy to alter the place structure. stevo --part1_fc.d0f9957.2f45efa3_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In a message dated 2005-02-17 5:21:5= 5 AM Eastern Standard Time, lojbab via ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes:


All places of a predicate= are equal.  
How then is topicality determined?  In many languages topicality d= ecreases as one continues speaking a sentence, i.e., it's greater at the be= ginning of the sentence and decreases toward the end.  This scheme wou= ld work well, I think, for Lojban, too, since it's easy to alter the place = structure.  

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