[lojban] Re: topicality

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 08:01:23AM -0500,
MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote:
> 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.  

That's certainly how I use it.  Howevery, it's orthogonal to the
point: lo botpi be fo zi'o is not a botpi, because all places are
equal.  It's something else.  lo julne be fi zi'o is not a julne,
and so on.  Similarily, defining a brivla without defining a place
structure is meaningless.

-robin

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