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Bootstrap Lojban: a preliminary outline for the textbook
The following is a preliminary outline for the Lojban textbook, tentatively
titled "Bootstrap Lojban." I have been working on copy-editing the existing
materials to produce a correct and usable (but far from complete)
prototype, hopefully to be published later this year after the proto-
dictionary. The symbol * represents a section planned but not yet written;
the symbol # represents a section written but possibly to be removed.
All comments are solicited. Part I represents the latest (not distributed)
draft; Part II represents the bulk of the distributed 1989 draft textbook.
Part I: What Is Lojban?
Chapter 0: Introduction To Lojban
Chapter 1: The Basic Structure Of Lojban
1.1 Relationship Sentences
1.2 Lojban Relation Words
1.3 Relationship Ideas
1.4 Relationship Expressions
1.5 Place Structures & Ellipsis
1.6 Descriptions using bridi
1.7 Modification Phrases as selbri
1.8 Grouping In Longer Tanru #
1.9 Lojban - An Unambiguous Language
1.10 Where's The Selbri? *
1.11 Conversion *
1.12 Questions *
1.13 Abstractions *
1.14 What Comes Next? *
1.15 Summary *
1.16 Word List
Part II: Learning Lojban
Chapter 2: Pronunciation
2.1 How To Pronounce Lojban
2.2 Writing Lojban
2.3 Lojban Phonology
2.4 Sample Words & Pronunciations
Chapter 3: Names & Vocatives
3.1 Forming Lojban Names
3.2 Sample Names
3.3 Exercise
Chapter 4: Conversation
4.1 Questions
4.2 Quotations
4.3 Oops!
4.4 Commands
4.5 Example Dialogues
4.6 Activities
Chapter 5: Place Structures
5.1 All Places Are Created Equal
5.2 What Is The Place Structure Of...?
5.3 Color brivla
5.4 Assumptions About Place Structures
5.5 So What Do I Do?
5.6 The Places That Aren't Specified
5.7 Places That Aren't In The Place Structure
5.8 Exercise
Chapter 6: bridi
6.1 zo'e
6.2 Observative bridi
6.3 vau & Elision
6.4 Conversion
6.5 Negation
6.6 Description with le
6.7 Examples
Chapter 7: Attitudinal Indicators
7.1 Common Attitudes
7.2 Attitude Questions
7.3 Examples
Chapter 8: Abstraction
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Events & States
8.3 Properties
8.4 Amounts
8.5 Nested Abstractions
8.6 Elliptical Abstractions
8.7 Exercise
Chapter 9: Numbers
9.1 Simple Numbers
9.2 boi
9.3 terbasna In cmavo Strings
9.4 Number Description
9.5 Counting
9.6 Numbers As Names
9.7 Some Extra Digits #
9.8 pi & pi'e
9.9 Telling Time & Dates
9.10 ni'u & ma'u #
9.11 ki'o
9.12 Activities
9.13 Exercise
9.14 Non-Numerical Quantifiers
9.15 Number Questions
9.16 Quantified Descriptions
9.17 Activity: A Song
Chapter 10: Questions
10.1 Review Of Questions
10.2 Yes-No Questions
10.3 Dialogue Activity
10.4 A Boring Story
Chapter 11: tanru
11.1 What Is A tanru?
11.2 3 Or More Place tanru
11.3 ke & ke'e
11.4 tanru And Metaphor
11.5 Family Relationships
11.6 Activity
11.7 Homework Activity
Chapter 12: Tense
12.1 Simple Tense In Lojban
12.2 Tense-Labeled sumti
12.3 Ellipsis Of The Modifier sumti
12.4 One More Ellipsis
12.5 How About Space Location?
12.6 Tenseless bridi: The Ultimate Ellipsis
12.7 Determining The Elliptical Value
12.8 Story Time
12.9 Elliptical Location Tenses
Chapter 13: Elision
13.1 When Is Elision Possible?
13.2 Elision Of vau
13.3 Elision Of li'u & le'u
13.4 Elision Of boi
13.5 Elision Of ke'e
13.6 Elision Of kei
13.7 Elision Of ku
13.8 Omission Of cu
13.9 Summary
13.10 Substitution Drill
13.11 Exercise
13.12 Story: The Accident
Chapter 14: Relative Clauses
14.1 Limitations Of Simple Description
14.2 Identifying Descriptions
14.3 poi
14.4 ke'a
14.5 Identity bridi
14.6 po'u
14.7 The ko'a Series
14.8 goi
14.9 po & po'e
14.10 pe
14.11 Example Dialogue
14.12 da
14.13 da poi
14.14 Activity
Chapter 15: Descriptions
15.1 Possessives & Tensed sumti
15.2 Descriptive Vocatives & Names
15.3 Turning Lojban Words Into Names
15.4 Veridical Descriptions
15.5 lo
15.6 Quantification Of lo Descriptions
15.7 Indefinite Descriptions
15.8 Mass Descriptions
15.9 Specified Descriptions
15.10 Non-Restrictive Relative Clauses & Phrases
15.11 Examples
15.12 Story: The Date
15.13 Assigned Composition: Self-Description
15.14 Exercise
Chapter 16: Pro-sumti
16.1 First & Second Person
16.2 Quantification Of Pro-sumti
16.3 Back-Counting Pro-sumti
16.4 Subscripts
16.5 Story
Chapter 17: Labeled sumti
17.1 Numbered sumti
17.2 Numbered sumti Questions
17.3 Comparatives
17.4 The Nature Of sumti tcita
17.5 Superlatives
17.6 Causality In Lojban
17.7 Causality sumti Labels
17.8 -nai
17.9 Reading Text
17.10 Assigned Composition
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John Cowan cowan@snark.thyrsus.com ...!uunet!cbmvax!snark!cowan
e'osai ko sarji la lojban.