Proposal 13: a change to jelink and juelink

[Randall Holmes]

JE and JUE can currently only be followed by arguments;

it should also be permissible to allow them to be followed

by modifiers

the rule should be changed to 

jelink <- JE term from jelink <- JE argument

(leaving out freemods for clarity)

This is clearly grammatically harmless and allows much

finer use of modifiers (PA clauses).

examples

le mrenu je vi la hasfa bi la Djan

The man who is at the house is John

le bilti je vi lo cutri, nirli ga gudbi sucmi.

The beautiful-in-the-water girl swims well

Notice that this allows tight application of modifier clauses

as here in metaphors.

This interacts with John's proposal 12, restoring a lot of the freedom of placement of nahu if it becomes a modifier instead of a freemod.

I think that JEPA and JUEPA will feel like new classes of words, though there is no need to add them to the grammar:

one is likely to write "le mrenu jevi la hasfa";

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Sincerely, Randall Holmes

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