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| In a message dated 10/7/2002 8:05:03 PM Central Daylight Time, xod@hidden.email writes: << I've actually been using CAI directly on the words I want to modify.>> Aside from what the official grammar says (that this is a strong but unspecified emotion), what is this meant to do in the operator-degree-subdegree-... system. The parse allows a reading as a modified predicate, which would suit me fine, even if that is not what the grammar says is going on. << > TYPES OF NEGATION OF DEGREE > > na('e?) <ja'a sai> : in degree that is other than <very> > ?? : in degree that is less than > ?? : in degree that is more than > > DEGREES OF JA'A CU'I > ?? : sorta-but-closer-to-being-POS-than-NEG > ?? : sorta-but-much-closer-to-being-POS-than-NEG > ?? : sorta-but-somewhat-closer-to-being-POS-than-NEG > ?? : sorta-but-slightly-closer-to-being-POS-than-NEG > ?? : sorta-but-closer-to-being-NEG-than-POS > ?? : sorta-but-much-closer-to-being-NEG-than-POS > ?? : sorta-but-somewhat-closer-to-being-NEG-than-POS > ?? : sorta-but-slightly-closer-to-being-NEG-than-POS Numbers, man. Numbers. >> Well, something concrete at least. |