Glossary

This page gives an overview of Toaq-specific jargon, or logic jargon as it relates to Toaq.

Auto-hoa

A family of proposals for automatically inserting hoa into a relative clause. None has been settled on (as of 2021), but you can compare the candidate proposals here.

Contentive

An old-school way to say verb.

Donkey

See Donkey sentence.

Exhibitor slots

An old-school way to say "genitival serialization" (the "merge-with-baq" behavior).

A proposed kind of predicate slot with special serial behavior. Written e in signatures.

Semantically, this slot is filled with a concrete (c) value, but it participates in serial merges sort of like a 1.

For example: if muoq (___ is made of ___) is taken to be c e, then muoq peq is “___ is made of paper”.

This would shrink wordy constructs like sa mủoq sü hóa baq pẻq down to just sa mủoq pẻq, and thus partially solve the “Toaq doesn’t have a word like Lojban be” problem.

Frame

A family of words, all having the same signature. Each frame is named after a familiar word in the frame.

See mı Hỏaqgīo’s list of predicate frames for a list of all major frames. (2021 note; this is supposed to get trimmed down a lot in the future.)

Great Root Expansion (GRE)

A 2019 phonology proposal (link).

JJ

jìe jí, "in my opinion".

New Segmentation (Newseg)

A 2020 proposal for a change to the tone system. http://toaq.org/Tones.pdf

This was superseded by the refgram segmentation system.

Opaque

Of a grammar construct like po X: meaning quantifiers on the inside don't leak out of it into the main prenex.
Of compound words like nıefā: meaning that you can't technically figure out the meaning just by applying rules to the parts; you have to look it up in a dictionary to be sure. But of course there are a lot of useful patterns. The decomposition into nıe and fa can be considered an etymology or a mnemonic, but there's no "transparent" process that determines its meaning.
In linguistics, these kinds of compounds are known as derivational (vs. compositional) or exocentric (vs. endocentric) compounds.

Small Grammar Update (SGU)

See Small Grammar Update.

t2, t3, t4…

The second, third, fourth… tone.

Universe of discourse (UoD)

The set of things under discussion at a given time. Quantifiers range over this domain, so that tu poq doesn't necessarily mean "all of the people in the world". See Wikipedia.