From jcowan@reutershealth.com Thu Jun 01 12:02:16 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21153 invoked from network); 1 Jun 2000 19:02:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 1 Jun 2000 19:02:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta1 with SMTP; 1 Jun 2000 19:02:15 -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 PAA09564; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 15:02:13 -0400 (EDT) Sender: cowan@mail.reutershealth.com Message-ID: <3936B311.172FF7D6@reutershealth.com> Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 15:01:37 -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: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" Cc: Lojban List Subject: Re: [lojban] (Technical) Problem area in v3 grammar References: <4.2.2.20000520151902.00ac1a60@127.0.0.1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan At 11:39 PM 05/19/2000 +0100, Richard Curnow wrote: > pu zi gi le masti gi le vensa mi klama le zdani > >Unfortunately not! The pu is 'absorbed' into the tense associated with >the 'gi' construct, so the whole pu..vensa phrase becomes the x1 of klama, >instead of 'mi', which becomes x2. I agree that this is a serious problem. A quick-and-dirty fix, involving no new cmavo and only one new grammar rule, is to add mod_head_490 term_set_85 as a new alternative for modifier_84. Then the above example can be written: pu nu'i zigi le masti gi le vensa nu'u mi klama le zdani This only extends the language and does not prohibit anything that existed before. Yacc does not complain. -- 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)