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Re: [lojban] Internal grammar of UI, NAI and CAI


2015-07-21 4:16 GMT+03:00 Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>:
And if we could come up with something flexible enough, it wouldn't be teachable.

In fact I came up with defining internal grammar of UI1/UI5/NAI/CAI exactly because I had problems with explaining how they are related to each other. IMO it's not teachable in its current underformalized way because people don't clearly understand what modifies what. It was fine when people avoided complex tools in describing attitudes but we shouldn't be stuck at that level any longer.

You may have problems in redistributing existing cmavo between these new 4 selmaho, though. 
E.g. {se'i}, {ri'e}, {zo'o} and {xo'o} by their semantics clearly belong to UI5=ROhA="interjection suffix"="categorizer".
I would accept having {fu'i} there too.
But I'm not sure how {le'o}, {vu'e}, {ju'o} work as such suffixes. People almost never use {ju'o} as a modifier but on its own. So they'd rather belong to UI="interjection root" part.

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