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Re: [lojban] Logos Initiative
On Tuesday, September 23, 2014 23:42:19 Gleki Arxokuna wrote:
> Then a wrong term has been used for Toaq Dzu since tones there an in guaspi
> represent syntactic roles and dont create new words just like in English
> interrogative intonation ti'e doesnt produce new words.
Toaq uses tone to distinguish predicates from arguments. Some natlangs use
tone to mark verb tense. This is still tone. English uses intonation to mark a
clause as a question; it doesn't mark a single word.
Pierre
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li ze te'a ci vu'u ci bi'e te'a mu du
li ci su'i ze te'a mu bi'e vu'u ci
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