From lojbab@lojban.org Sun Sep 01 12:38:44 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_1_0_1); 1 Sep 2002 19:38:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 41400 invoked from network); 1 Sep 2002 19:38:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 1 Sep 2002 19:38:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lakemtao03.cox.net) (68.1.17.242) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 1 Sep 2002 19:38:44 -0000 Received: from lojban.lojban.org ([68.100.206.153]) by lakemtao03.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.05 201-253-122-122-105-20011231) with ESMTP id <20020901193842.GVBZ16428.lakemtao03.cox.net@lojban.lojban.org> for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 15:38:42 -0400 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020901153543.031dc500@pop.east.cox.net> X-Sender: rlechevalier@pop.east.cox.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2002 15:37:52 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] dictionary - which words? In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: Robert LeChevalier X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=1120595 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojbab At 02:49 PM 9/1/02 +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote: >Is the use of the word "modal" instead of "preposition" purely >a Lojban thing? I think the usual (non-Lojban) sense of "modal" >has more to do with what some UIs do. The only Lojban modals >that might be standard modals are {ka'e} and {ca'a}, right? The reason for using "modal" is that they are used in parallel with tense constructs modifying the predication. Why THOSE are called modals is a question for a linguist to answer. -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org