Re: fragile place structure

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

Andrew Strader cusku di'e

> The policy of usage determining officialdom in the grammar seems to waver
> insecurely when it comes to what I've seen of bajra. Now I always like how
> bajra was handled, place structure-wise, but then I noticed in the
> self-teaching lessons it is consistently used with a place structure of "x1
> runs to x2 from x3 via x4", so I shrugged it off because there were a number
> of such errors to be weeded out of those lessons, but then I encountered it
> in the reference grammar (Chapter 7, I believe), and it appears a more
> efficient way to communicate that one runs to two from three would be with
> bajra klama. If I'm looking at anomolous usage, I'd figure the usefulness of
> the dictionary bajra would take precedence.

The dictionary represents the new version.  The old version, parallel to
"klama", survives in the uncorrected textbook; the example in Chapter 7
of
the reference grammar was copied uncritically from an old document and
will
be fixed.

> Also, where can I look at a general (tentative) schedule of LLG's priorities
> as to freezing of various levels of description, publications, and so forth.

We expect to have the machine grammar frozen by the end of this year;
at the same time, the reference grammar (book) will be ready for
printing.
(Obviously, we may still fix errors in the book, as opposed to making
changes in the language.)  The dictionary (place structures, mostly)
should
freeze six months later.  The textbook will follow when we can; nothing
in
it is authoritative anyway.

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John Cowan						cowan@ccil.org
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