Re: terminators

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

Lee Sau Dan:
> That's  implicit -- analoguous the  elided terminators in Lojban.  You
> don't need brackets in   postfix (reverse Polish) or  prefix  (Polish)
> notations, do you?
>
> So, take this Japanese sentence as an example:
>
>             koko_ni   hon_ga    ari_masu.
> Explicit:   here  )    book ) exist present)
> Implicit: ((         (
>
> The positions of the left parenthesis are understood.

We're looking for examples where, as in Lojban, both ends of
a phrase are overtly marked. If Lojban terminators were, like
your Japanese initiators, always absent but understood, then it
wouldn't have terminators.

--And