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And Rosta scripsit:
> Someone someday is going the face up to the fact that de facto
> grammar of {kau} is that it can follow any question word, but
> not meaningfully anything else, and write a grammar accordingly,
> using whatever formalism best gets the job done.
Well, "someone someday" turned out to be "me today".
Despite Lojbab's strictures, I decided to confine the new selma'o
KAU to appear after only those selma'o that actually have question
words in them: viz. CUhE FA GA JA GIhA GUhA A UI KOhA GOhA CAI PA.
In a nutshell, it works fine. I have attached the necessary context
diff against grammar.300. In each case, KAU is bound tightly to the
preceding cmavo: you can't say "sejinaikau" or even "sejikaunai", it
has to be "jikau". You can, however, say "xokauroi" and "xokaumoi".
And of course it's grammatical to use "kau" after a non-question cmavo
that belongs to one of the above selma'o.
This is a probe of jboskeists: do you think it's worth writing up a
proposal for the byfy, or should we just leave bad enough alone? I am
a little paranoid about possible trouble because KAU is used in both the
main grammar and the preparser grammar, which has been known to lead to
trouble in the past.
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12c12 < grammar.300 --- > grammar.301 213a214 > %token KAU_549 /* indirect question marker */ 832a834 > | KOhA_555 KAU_549 833a836 > | KOhA_555 KAU_549 free_modifier_32 856a860 > | GOhA_543 KAU_549 876a881,882 > | UI_612 KAU_549 > | CAI_515 KAU_549 1206a1213 > | FA_527 KAU_549 1207a1215 > | FA_527 KAU_549 free_modifier_32 1397a1406 > | A_501 KAU_549 1421a1431 > | JA_546 KAU_549 1452a1463 > | lexer_G_707 GA_537 KAU_549 1461a1473 > | lexer_H_708 GUhA_544 KAU_549 1502,1504c1514,1520 < number_root_961 : PA_672 < | number_root_961 PA_672 < | number_root_961 lerfu_word_987 --- > number_root_961 : number_root_A_962 > | PA_672 KAU_549 > ; > > number_root_A_962 : PA_672 > | number_root_A_962 PA_672 > | number_root_A_962 lerfu_word_987 1532a1549 > | CUhE_522 KAU_549 1604a1622 > | GIhA_541 KAU_549