Re: Linguistics journals

[Logical Language Group <lojbab@ACCESS.DIGEX.NET>]

>Could Lojban be used, if not "studied" as such, by a linguist/logician as
>a tool for discussing and illustrating some fine points of linguistic
>logic?  Not writing *in* lojban, just giving examples in Lojban.  An
>abstract discussion of how abstraction, quantification, and argument
>raising (to pick three things out of the hat) would be less readable and
>more prone to error than one that analyzed example sentences with {nu},
>{ci}, and {tu'a} in them.  In other words, maybe Lojan could be useful in
>the same way math notation or normal predicate calculus are useful.

I have discussed with one linguist (Alexis Manaster-Ramer) about using Lojban
as a tool for communicating semantic nuance in a way that English translation
cannot in reporting examples from other languages.

I also found that Lojban event contours made it easy  to understand the
Russian perfective system, which is purportedly one of the more difficult
features for English speakers to understand.  This suggests that Lojban may
be useful in conveying the significance of grammatical strutures in one
language in terms understandable in English or some other native language.
For example, perhaps someone could show ergativity in Lojban more clearly than
in English.

lojbab