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Subject: Re: [lojban] a linguistics syntax, to the intrested.
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 03:09:19 -0400
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On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 03:43:04 la ki'es-di'es wrote:
> coi
>=20
> IP: (NP) I (VP)
> NP: (Det) (Adj) N (PP)
> VP: V (NP) (PP)
> PP: P (NP)
>=20
> Where IP (the sentence), NP (noun phrase), VP (verb phrase), Det
> (definition tool such as the), Adj (Adjective), N (noun), PP (proposition
> phrase), V (verb), P (proposition). I (auxiliary verb)

"NP: (Det) (Adj) N (PP)" does not match Lojban at all. There are no adjecti=
ves=20
in Lojban, and the article phrase (the equivalent of the noun phrase) is mo=
re=20
often made of a determiner and a verb than a determiner and a noun.

"IP: (NP) I (VP)" doesn't match Lojban either. There is no such thing in=20
Lojban as an auxiliary verb.

There are three ways of attaching a prepositional phrase to something. It c=
an=20
be attached to a sumti (whether it's a phrase or a single word) with "pe" (=
or=20
anything else in GOI), or to a selbri either directly or with "be".=20
Translating xorxes's example both ways:

.i le ninmu pu viska le nanmu sepi'o le relkaldarvistci
.i le ninmu pu viska le nanmu pe ka'ai le relkaldarvistci

mu'omi'e .pier.
--=20
When a barnacle settles down, its brain disintegrates.
J=E1 n=E3o percebe nada, j=E1 n=E3o percebe nada.

--=20
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