Re: NAI

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> Lojban in general has no
> idioms - the sense of a phrase is fully predictable from the meaning
> of its parts[.]

This is not really true:  the sense of "skami pilno" may be "user of
computers", or "computer which is a user", or other more exotic
possibilities.

> Second, and more interestingly, UI are in general invisible
> to other words, but they appear to be visible to NAI. How so? This
> is accounted for if the bond between UI and following NAI is
> morphological.

I would hesitate to say that UI are "invisible"; they have a syntactic
bond to the previous item:  thus

	skami a'o pilno

groups as

	(skami a'o) pilno

although it is true that "(skami a'o)" has the same grammatical properties
as "skami".  This is in fact how the parser implements attitudinals:
it binds them to the preceding word, returning a new node of the same
selma'o as the preceding word.

-- 
John Cowan					cowan@ccil.org
		e'osai ko sarji la lojban.