Subject: Re: [lojban] tautologies

From: "Jorge Llambias" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 23:59:08

la and cusku di'e

>Also, how would you distinguish between
>
>Jane knows who went
>
>and
>
>Jane knows that whoever went, she will still go herself
>
>?

Ouch! Yes, that's a problem. I think it has to be something
like:

la djein djuno le du'u romu'eiku ge makau gi dy klama

Jane knows that: in every possible world, whoever goes she goes.

(This does not say that in every possible world Jane knows
who goes.)

It would seem then that {romu'ei} will be necessary for main
clause q-ever as well...

>Lastly, if kau is to have a scope-sensitive interpretation, such that
>it has scope over the bridi it occurs in, will pau also have scope-
>sensitive interpretation, or will pau always have scope over the
>whole sentence, regardless of whether it is stuck within an
>embedded clause?

Interesting. That would give us a way to cover what pc calls
true indirect questions, "he asked whether...", etc.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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