proposed interpretive conventions

Innumerably many syntactically well-formed structures in Lojban have no clearly-defined interpretation. This page 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.)

Current 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
  • jbocre: 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)-