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Re: [saweli] appropriateness as a new deontic modality

Since Rick agrees with me (he responded on the Latejami list), I've added a new classifier "yu'i" for the appropriateness modality.
The words for "appropriate" and "inappropriate" are already in the dictionary, so I've changed them (I forgot to record their original forms; they should be in the online version) to "yu'ibik" (appropriate, etc.) and "yu'izuk" (inappropriate, etc.).
The Latejami words are "kobuxaso" and "kobubeso", respectively.
 
stevo

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 1:46 PM, stevo <lytlesw@hidden.email> wrote:
 

Modality represents an impartial judgment of a situation.

There are several tests for modality in LSMTI.

1) Does the concept fit into one of these two sentences?
It's E that he left.
It's D that he leave.

2) The concept should not be a description of a mental state or of a measurable, objective attribute. It probably won't be a passive participle.

3) If either of these two statements is automatically implied by the concept, then it's not modal.
I approve/disapprove of what happened.
I hope that the event will/will not happen.

I think that appropriateness passes these tests.

stevo