From jcowan@reutershealth.com Fri May 19 11:34:42 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5286 invoked from network); 19 May 2000 18:34:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 19 May 2000 18:34:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta2 with SMTP; 19 May 2000 18:34:41 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@skunk.reutershealth.com [204.243.9.153]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA19374; Fri, 19 May 2000 14:34:36 -0400 (EDT) Sender: cowan@mail.reutershealth.com Message-ID: <39258932.984DFBBB@reutershealth.com> Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 14:34:26 -0400 Organization: Reuters Health Information X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.5-15 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "James F. Carter" , "lojban@onelist.com" Subject: Re: [lojban] RECORD: place structure. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan "James F. Carter" wrote: > From time to time in the past, the fashion has shifted between giving > numbered places to "all" "essential" arguments of a gismu, versus letting > the more outre' arguments be served by phrases. See my discussion of the four pressures (brevity, convenience, metaphysical necessity, consistency) at http://www.lojban.org/files/reference-grammar/chap12.html#s16 . (Jimc, I don't know if you've gotten to read this chapter, but I'd be interested to hear what you think. It's mostly my reduction of Nick's paper.) -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)