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On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 08:39:50PM -0600, Rex May - Baloo wrote:
> Loglan has sentence connective i, which makes compounds with pinvor to make
> words like 'but' and 'because.' It seems that we can have the compound
> pinvor .iza, which is always followed by a preya that is converted by the za
> into some kind of discursive itself. Say 'falo' means 'follow', .izafalo
> might mean 'so,' or 'consequently'. The scope of za can be only one
> morpheme, obviously.
"But" is not one of these words, but many of those connectives
("because", "therefore", "in addition") are modals. So this conversion
is already handled by 'ho'.
("But"/"however" (ku'i) conveys no extra meaning to the sentence, and
thus is one of the pseudo-attitudinals in the UI class.)
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Rob Speer