Re: [lojban] RECORD: place structure.

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

"James F. Carter" wrote:

> From time to time in the past, the fashion has shifted between giving
> numbered places to "all" "essential" arguments of a gismu, versus letting
> the more outre' arguments be served by <BAI> phrases.

See my discussion of the four pressures (brevity, convenience, metaphysical
necessity, consistency) at
http://www.lojban.org/files/reference-grammar/chap12.html#s16 .

(Jimc, I don't know if you've gotten to read this chapter, but I'd be
interested to hear what you think.  It's mostly my reduction of Nick's paper.)

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