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Evidentials (Re: [lojban] Dr. James Cooke Brown)
From: Ivan A Derzhanski <iad@MATH.BAS.BG>
Bob LeChevalier (lojbab) wrote:
> At 03:41 PM 02/18/2000 -0500, Robert A. McIvor wrote:
> >I am unaware of inconsistencies in the grammar. Whether or not it is
> >complete is a matter of definition. I imagine there are structures
> >in other languages that have no counterpart in either Loglan or Lojban.
> >e.g. the Turkish 'gossip' tense that has been recently discussed.
>
> Lojban has evidentials, after the manner
> of [...] and Native American languages.
[...]
> Perhaps Robin Turner, our resident Turkish expert can comment.
And so can Ivan Derzhanski, being a native speaker of a language
(Bulgarian) whose system of renarrated forms is thought to have
been calqued from Turkish. Yes, the Lojban evidentials are fully
able to do the job of the Turkish or Bulgarian renarrated forms,
and much more besides.
There've got to be structures in other languages that have no
counterparts in Lojban, but that is not one of them.
--
<'al-_haylu wa-al-laylu wa-al-baydA'u ta`rifunI
wa-as-sayfu wa-ar-rum.hu wa-al-qir.tAsu wa-al-qalamu>
(Abu t-Tayyib Ahmad Ibn Hussayn al-Mutanabbi)
Ivan A Derzhanski <http://www.math.bas.bg/~iad/>
H: cplx Iztok bl 91, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria <iad@math.bas.bg>
W: Dept for Math Lx, Inst for Maths & CompSci, Bulg Acad of Sciences
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