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selma'o [[BAI|BAI]]


The containing phrase of one or more free modifiers. Note that this is a
;'''ja'u''' as shown by: jarco modal; 1st place, as shown by...


right-recursive structure, which is not the ordinary direction in the
;'''seja'u''' showing: jarco modal; 2nd place, showing...


Lojban grammar. It is not clear why this is so.
;'''teja'u''' shown to: jarco modal; 3rd place, shown to audience...


All of these free modifiers are supposed to be able to appear anywhere
''ja'o'' used to be the jarco modal, but that got reassigned for some reason.


in a sentence.
I can find no actual moment at which ja'o from jarco bit the ground, but the reason was the same as that for [[jbocre: ci'a|ci'a]]: it was hopelessly malglico in the intended sense.  --[[jbocre: John Cowan|John Cowan]]
 
In general, free modifier sequences can appear almost anywhere in a
 
sentence. In practice, though, this is not the case. Here is the
 
beginning of what will some day be a complete list of the exceptions:
 
* Inside a number/lerfu-string/lerfu-word
* Inside a simple-tense-modal
 
* Inside a [[jbocre: zei|zei]]-[[jbocre: lujvo|lujvo]], because they are merged into a single token by a preparser rule ([[jbocre: parse step 4a]]).
* Inside a connective (ek, jek, joik, gihek, gek, guhek, gik)
 
* Inside a vocative head
* somewhere else?
 
Note that this rule does not include [[jbocre: UI|UI]] attitudinals,
 
because this is covered by a special lexer rule that attaches them to
 
the preceding tokens ([[jbocre: parse step 4e]]), and in the cases where attitudinals '''precede''' a
 
whole sentence or utterance, [[jbocre: indicators_411]] is referenced directly in
 
those rules.

Revision as of 16:53, 4 November 2013

selma'o BAI

ja'u as shown by
jarco modal; 1st place, as shown by...
seja'u showing
jarco modal; 2nd place, showing...
teja'u shown to
jarco modal; 3rd place, shown to audience...

ja'o used to be the jarco modal, but that got reassigned for some reason.

I can find no actual moment at which ja'o from jarco bit the ground, but the reason was the same as that for ci'a: it was hopelessly malglico in the intended sense. --John Cowan