From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Jun 12 06:04:56 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:04:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MF6RE-00039l-D6 for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:04:56 -0700 Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.120]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MF6R9-00039L-2j for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:04:56 -0700 Received: from chausie ([71.75.215.96]) by cdptpa-omta04.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20090612130444399.NVNR16114@cdptpa-omta04.mail.rr.com> for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:04:44 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chausie (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C84F137 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:27:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: another oddity pe la jbofi'e Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:27:28 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 0.20070907.709405) References: <4de8c3930906111536u2b04041eqd107c1e6ec0df279@mail.gmail.com> <925d17560906111829p3812c6d5j1a4b21c55e249fb8@mail.gmail.com> <4de8c3930906120119p89d78d3se80270d7dd30f1e2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4de8c3930906120119p89d78d3se80270d7dd30f1e2@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200906120727.28992.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-archive-position: 1828 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Friday 12 June 2009 04:19:08 tijlan wrote: > This is from la alis (pamo'o): > > i abuboi so'uroi sutra zgana le cukta poi le mensi cu tcidu > > Is "so'uroi" a free modifier here? "so'uroiku" might be, but "so'uroi > sutra zgana" is a tag selbri, isn't it? "so'uroi" is a tense marker, not a free modifier. It can act as a preposition like other tense markers. So "so'uroi le sutra zgana" is a term, as is "so'uroiku", but "so'uroi" just before "sutra zgana" modifies it as a tense marker. Pierre