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Re: [engelang] Re: [jboske] LoCCan3 development ideas.



Jorge Llamb�as, On 17/08/2012 23:47:
And's event-argument provides a good way to handle subordinate
clauses. I have "k" as the core arguments separator, I would add "f"
as a way of adding an event argument to any predicate. So we can have
for example:

la le nnle li nxli tvlekifa vska'aka
The x which the y which is a boy the z which is a girl, y talks to z
in x, I see x
I see the boy talking to the girl.

Alternatively, and perhaps easier to parse:

la nnla le nxle li tvlakefi vska'aki
The boy, the girl, the event in which he talks to her, I see it.

If the event arguments preceded the other arguments and the {F} followed rather than preceded it, then {fV} would never be word-final and hence would be freed up to also have a separate word-initial function.

One other thing I thought about is numbers. I would not make them
quantifiers as in Lojban, but just ordinary predicates: "x1 is one",
"x1 are two", "x1 are three", etc, basically Lojban's "PA mei". They
could be constructed by assigning a letter to each digit and then
reserving a prefix (say nm-) to form each predicate: nmpa "a is one",
nmra "a are two", nmxxxa "a are 666".

You could extend this scheme so that a different initial CC pair marks ordinals, tho maybe the ordinality could be nmC but with a different adicity (X is nth in sequence Y). But different initial CC pairs would still be useful for, say "X is the number 2" and so forth.

-And.