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Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Possible polysemy clashes for "regular affixes" in lujvo?
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On Wednesday, May 13, 2015 19:15:19 Gleki Arxokuna wrote:
> In both examples case changes only for the first two places. "from" and
> "to" prepositions stay the same.
> However, for -gau and -bi'o lujvo one has to mentally shift the place
> structure. So instead of {mi djuno fi do} you get {ra jungau mi fo do}.
> This may be harder to use since you have to learn two place structure
> whereas in major world languages almost one.

Lojban doesn't have accusative or ergative morphosyntactic alignment. It ha=
s=20
an indefinitely long series of numbered places. English has four numbered=
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places (the fourth is quite rarely used) and can move 2 to 1 or 3 to 1 (mov=
ing=20
1 to a place tagged by "by"), but doesn't shift them the way Lojban does.

Children have no problem learning ergative languages. I see no reason why=
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children can't learn place-shift languages. It's adults that have problems=
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learning a different kind of language than they're used to.

Pierre
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