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Re: [engelang] Xorban Development



Jorge Llamb�as, On 07/09/2012 01:19:
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 10:15 PM, And Rosta<and.rosta@hidden.email>  wrote:
Jorge Llamb�as, On 06/09/2012 01:40:
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 8:47 PM, And Rosta<and.rosta@hidden.email>  wrote:

if there is some convention that vV coerces a kind of comparative
interpretation of predicates cobound with it.

So vV is basically "rather" or "rather than not".

Probably, yes.

I'm now wondering whether vV shouldn't be just "ne". Does the V play
any relevant role?


la je ckfa va mlka prfraka'a
I prefer my coffee milky (to not milky)

la je ckfa ne mlka prfraka'a
I prefer it when coffee is indeed milky to when coffee is not indeed milky

I think the ne only pragmatically gets across that the focus is the milkiness. But that objection goes away with:

la ckfa li fi (ne) mlka prfrika'a

where even without "ne", you get the required interp.


But I can't see a way of doing without vA with the quantifier-predicates:

la je frmra se xsle je pnsake va drxake msta
la msta je frmra se xsle je pnsake va drxake

Can you think of a vV-less method?
You can't do it as:
li frmra si je xsle pnsaki lu fu drxaki mstu
To summarize, then: vA is indispensable for certain logical structures (donkey sentences), and is also convenient for other quantifier-predicates and for marking focus within semantically comparative predicates such as 'prefer'.

--And.