Do you mean now or under the future xornu? BTW. I was agreeing that it did seem odd that we distinguished types of events as subordinate but not in main clauses. I have tried to figure out what the logic differences are among the event types and they all seem to be about what one can say and I am not sure how they work out in Lojban. I think we can distinguish ending from completing (vital for activity-process); I am less sure about other notions. An achievement is generally the completion of a process, as it's telic nature more or less guarantees, though sometimes the mere change of state, without reference to the forces involved, is also included: eating after a period of frustrated attempts, surely, change of energy state of an electron not so clearly. In any case, these differences, if they are significant at all, are surely as (or, probably, more) for main clauses, where the action is. But I am not sure they matter at all since the can be built into the presuppositions of any argument where they play a role. Sent from my iPad -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lojban" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban?hl=en. |