Re: dangling participles

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

> >Date:         Mon, 10 Nov 1997 00:24:21 -0500
> >From: Logical Language Group <lojbab@ACCESS.DIGEX.NET>
> >
> >>Incidentally, Lojban (a constructed language based on predicate logic) has
> >>--More--
> >>*ten* possible pronouns.  They're all grammatically the same, and can stand
> >>for anything - you just assign them as you want.
> >
> >More than ten, you can subscript each of them, and you can also use any of
> >the letterals (in any alphabet) as a pronoun.
>
> And even more relevantly, the letterals have a default setting, namely the
> most recent sumti beginning with the same letter.  This effectively gives
> Lojban 20-odd "genders": the gender of things beginning with "a", the
> gender of things beginning with "b", etc.  Just as "I was with my brother
> and my mother when she cut her finger" uses gender to disambiguate without
> my having to repeat the noun, "le nanmu cu kansa le verba .i vy. se xrani"
> disambiguates that it was the child who was hurt the same way.
>
> ~mark

It's not actually the most recent sumti beginning with the same
letter, is it? Otherwise most sumti would be referred back to
by "ly.", bcs most begin with L. But what is the actual rule?

--And