[lojban] Re: ki restriction?

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 03:52:21PM -0300, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> On 1/5/06, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> >
> > The RefGram says:
> >
> >  Note: Modals made with ``fi'o''-plus-selbri cannot be made
> >  sticky. This is an unfortunate, but unavoidable, restriction.
> >
> > in Chapter 9, Section 14.
> >
> > What does this mean?
> >
> > All three parsers accept "fi'o ki broda da brode".
> 
> That's different, 

Different from what?

> {ki} there is a tag on broda, not on brode.

What does that mean?

> > 2 out of 3 accept "fi'o broda ki da brode", so it doesn't seem
> > to be a grammatical restriction.
> 
> That would be {fi'o broda [ku] ki da brode}. Here the term {ki da}
> is a separate term from the term {fi'o broda ku}.

ki tags the *following* thing, you're saying?

> > I don't get it.
> 
> This is a proposal for how the grammar of tags could be cleaned up:

No interest; I'm asking about the current state and why that
restriction exists.

-Robin

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