Re: la'e

[And Rosta <a.rosta@UCLAN.AC.UK>]

John:
> la lojbab. cusku di'e
>
> > Or are you saying that xukau is like zo'e and cannot be quantified, but
> > rather must be reanalyzed at each sumti position at which it occurs
> > independently?  So far we have only a couple such words possible as sumti
> > and they are called out as such in their definitions.
>
> As you yourself have said, "kau" is an attitudinal, and sentences
> with attitudinals in them don't necessarily allow of logical
> analysis.

I hasten to add, though, that kau (or Q-kau) very much affects
truth-conditional meaning.

So to clarify your point, sentences with attitudinals in them
don't necessarily have a straightforwardly compositional semantics
that can be applied mechanically without regard to lexical
semantics.

--And