From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Jun 20 08:24:59 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:25:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1I122y-0000Mb-Hu for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:24:40 -0700 Received: from phma.optus.nu ([166.82.175.165] helo=ixazon.dynip.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1I122v-0000MS-MX for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:24:40 -0700 Received: from chausie (unknown [192.168.7.4]) by ixazon.dynip.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 528A8CE940 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:24:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] inflect, conjugate, decline, and other grammar terms Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:24:29 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200706201124.30356.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: 0.2 X-Spam-Score-Int: 2 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 13743 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list How should we express these terms? inflect - I'm thinking {ja'ocne} (x1 varies in x2, showing x3, or something like that) conjugate, decline. Verbs conjugate, nouns and adjectives decline - but is the Russian past tense conjugated or declined? derive - e.g. forming {nunbroda} from {broda}. Unlike most languages in which they are single words, the comparative {rodmau} and superlative {rodrai} are compounds, not derivations. person - we have words for "first-person pronoun" (mibma'o) and "second-person pronoun" (donma'o), but what's just "person"? Pierre To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.