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On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 12:52 PM, And Rosta <and.rosta@hidden.email> wrote: > > "la xza gerka vska'aka" > "I saw the dog" > > [...] I'm proposing a new type of predicate, possibly comprising only xz, that takes a "sentence" as its dependent, where the dependent sentence provides the (voi-type) description. I'd rather not split CC stems into two separate selma'o if we can avoid it. Couldn't we do that with a unary-operator instead (for example "ne" or add a new C to the unaries) "la ne grka vska'aka"? >>> There's also the possibility of using stems like qam- (= 'am-), where qa- >>> introduces vowelless name stems, and the name is taken to refer to something >>> already referred to with a predicate starting with m- (ignoring any >>> name-introducing prefix), like Lojban my. >> >> In general you can refer to things with formulas, which may consist of >> more than just one predicate, so the bit about the initial needs some >> more clarification (as does in Lojban). But I'm not sure I follow the >> proposed syntax of qam- anyway. > > qam is an onomastic predicate (qa- indicating that it's onomastic, and -m- being the distinctive part), which by convention could be used for on-the-fly naming. How about reserving all qC stems for that, so we don't need to modify the grammar? mu'o mi'e xorxes