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At 10:09 AM 4/30/03 -0500, Jordan DeLong wrote: [unquotable due to GPG][more or less that "if a new question word is added, we change the grammar of KAU"]
(Also answering Cowan's grammar proposal in passing).1. The standard until now has been that a lexicon change is much more minor than a grammar change. This will be even more true once a dictionary is written, because a grammar change will force a review of all words in all selma'o that interact with the changed grammar, whereas a lexicon change requires only a review of the specific words in question and any examples that use those words.
2. As noted in the ensuing discussion, kau can attach to a definite sumti/cmavo value as well as to the question words (and therefore can attach to any word that can end a construct equivalent to a question word selma'o, so all possible terminators of sumti structures should be able to take kau). Thus Cowan's grammar change proposal is incomplete even for the current known applications.
3. Derivative of 2, it seems likely that there could arise usages of kau BEFORE there arise question words for a construct. There is no termset question word and I can't imagine wanting one, but one can stick kau on the end of a termset to indicate that one knows it is the correct termset value.
4. If kau is not in UI, I don't think it can go on a UI question word. Don't know if it matters, i.e. whether peikau is usable.
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