From robin@BILKENT.EDU.TR Sun Apr 14 23:55:15 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: robin@bilkent.edu.tr X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_3_1); 15 Apr 2002 06:55:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 47688 invoked from network); 15 Apr 2002 06:55:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m11.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 15 Apr 2002 06:55:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr) (139.179.30.24) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 15 Apr 2002 06:55:14 -0000 Received: from there (neo.fen.bilkent.edu.tr [139.179.97.69]) by manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr (Postfix) with SMTP id C21A012783 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 10:31:59 +0300 (EEST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Organization: Bilkent University To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Tense and attitudinals Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 09:53:00 +0300 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020415073159.C21A012783@manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr> From: Robin Turner X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=810606 X-Yahoo-Profile: digambaranath On Saturday 13 April 2002 18:37, Jorge Llambias wrote: > > You can use {ba'anai} for the memories. But attitudinals don't > really have an internal grammar, so you can't make very > complex conections among them. > > > In this case, both attitudes occur in the present. He doesn't > want to say he was sad in the past, he says he is sad now, > remembering the past. Just to get this clear ... Does .uinaiba'anai then mean "I am sad (in the present), remembering some past event"? robin.tr -- "Bravo Epictetus!" - Epictetus Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin