[lojban] Re: "la" rule

[Bob LeChevalier <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

Robert McIvor wrote:
> On 13 Nov, 2006, at 20:06, Robert McIvor wrote:
>
> I believe I remember that 'coi' identifies the author of something.  In 
> Loglan the
> canonical form would correspond to Coi La Bab, where Bab is the name.
> However, a sort of usage sprung up which used the equivalent of Coi Bab,
> if Bab himself was the author and Coi la Bab if one were citing a  third 
> party.
> The equivalent of 'coi is not a name marker in Loglan, so the 'la'  
> would be
> considered the marker to be stripped

Lojban's vocative marker is "doi", having no semantic content other than 
implicit in the grammatical marking.  "coi" means "hello" and has the 
same grammar as the vocative marker, but the obvious semantics and 
pragmatics of greeting.  Lojban has several other members of the 
vocative selma'o/lexeme.

lojbab



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