Category:ELG

This page describes The Crash Course method, an unofficial method of teaching Lojban. You've been warned.

Extended Lojban Grammar (a draft)

Extended Lojban Grammar (ToDo)

Preface

Extended Lojbanic Grammar (ELG, formerly CLL and Berry lessons) is the full reference grammar of Lojban to work on par with The Crash Course in Lojban, a Lojban dialect developed by Lojbanic community in IRC chat channel #lojban. Compared to CLL ELG is more bulky.

Not for newbies obviously. Not really a continuation of the Crash Course.

ELG is to be written mostly in simple Lojban. Many borrowings from English are expected. Many parts of ELG are based on CLL.

ELG presents different interesting aspects of Lojban language, it's grammar, vocabulary and applications in different fields.

ELG Addendum

Many syntactically well-formed structures in Lojban have no clearly-defined interpretation. ELG Addendum lists unofficial proposals for useful or needful interpretive conventions for some of these cases. Some of these proposed conventions might be natural and/or logical consequences of official interpretive conventions.

Content

• CLL: to be imported
• gotchas are actually amendments to ELG and The Crash Course (a draft).
• ELG: Default place filling
• ELG: any and some in detail: da zo'u
• ELG: Raising
• ELG: Negating BAI
• ELG: xorlo
• '''le''' as an anaphorical particle
• ELG:Logic and Lojban - to be written by la latro'a
• ELG: type autocorrection
• Possessive sumti
• Formal definition of moi
• grouping gismu (by their semantics, place structure)
• bear goo, xorlo in detail

Lexicon semantics

• ELG: detri (compared to datru, also tcika)
• Stub: Grammatical aspects
• ELG: Metaphors (metfo, pesna, pe'a)
• The problem of as (tasmi, tai)
• ELG: sensory gismu (also krumami, sodna, slari etc.)
• ELG: onomatopoeia
• ELG: commands and requests
• ELG: chemistry (IUPAC nomenclature?)
• Category:jboske

• Missing predicates

Other things

• change cmene to cmevla

Proposals

• anaphora
  • construal of antecedents of sumti anaphors
  • identifying no'a antecedents
  • lerfu pro-sumti, and why ko'a sucks
    • Not really a proposed interpretive convention, more a discussion of a convention already extant in the language (per The Book) and why it should be used more.
  • pertaining to vo'a
    • Why the Book is Right and the ma'oste is Wrong
• gadri and quantifiers
  • tu'o
  • coi xirma, doi xirma
  • requantification
  • quantification and the meaning of ro
  • sumti qualifiers
• concerning NU abstractions
  • ce'u
  • ka, du'u, si'o, ce'u, zo'e
  • pu'u
• kau
  • makau
  • indirect indicators
• concerning numbers & mekso
  • ju'u
  • Internal grammar of numbers
  • Number subgrammar
• concerning tcita, tense & modals
  • JAhA + CAI
  • CAhA as sumtcita
  • nau as sumtcita
  • scope of tenses and NA
• Dates
• methods of resolving mismatches between place structures and number of overt sumti
  • SE + x2-less brivla
• semantical equivalences
• Interpretive conventions for lerfu formatting cmavo

Proposals that have died in the arse

• concerning NU abstractions
  • ka versus du'u, and ce'u and zo'e
• asymmetric goi
• On the meaning of 'ro broda cu brode' (arsedead version)-

What does it mean?

Formatting