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The Lojban Reference Grammar

This directory contains the current reference grammar. This is the pre-final version, and has some typos.

Anyone interested is urged to read the book and send comments to John Cowan at <[email protected]>.

Here are the individual chapters:

1. Lojban As We Mangle It In Lojbanistan: About This Book
2. A Quick Tour of Lojban Grammar, With Diagrams
3. The Hills Are Alive With The Sounds Of Lojban
4. The Shape Of Words To Come: Lojban Morphology
5. "Pretty Little Girls' School": The Structure Of Lojban selbri
6. To Speak Of Many Things: The Lojban sumti
7. Brevity Is The Soul Of Language: Pro-sumti And Pro-bridi
8. Relative Clauses, Which Make sumti Even More Complicated
9. To Boston Via The Road Go I, With An Excursion Into The Land Of Modals
10. Imaginary Journeys: The Lojban Space/Time Tense System
11. Events, Qualities, Quantities, And Other Vague Words: On Lojban Abstraction
12. Dog House And White House: Determining lujvo Place Structures
13. Oooh! Arrgh! Ugh! Yecch! Attitudinal and Emotional Indicators
14. If Wishes Were Horses: The Lojban Connective System
15. "No" Problems: On Lojban Negation
16. "Who Did You Pass On The Road? Nobody": Lojban And Logic
17. As Easy As A-B-C? The Lojban Letteral System And Its Uses
18. lojbau mekso: Mathematical Expressions in Lojban
19. Putting It All Together: Notes on the Structure of Lojban Texts
20. A Catalogue of selma'o
21. Formal Grammars

The entire reference grammar is available as an archive:

• HTML format (hrefgram.zip, 563; 1.6Mb unzipped; MD5 = 0d72c94cd07282b884c9725fb208da12)

The hardbound version has been announced

• SIL IPA fonts (Truetype and PS) (silip12a.zip (404kb, MD5 = b5c0c0aab352ac9909809cfcb9b6d89b)

Last modified: Mon Jun 27 23:10:52 PDT 2005

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