From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Dec 18 12:03:48 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:03:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1J4ifL-0002D7-Sk for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:03:48 -0800 Received: from pi.meson.org ([66.134.26.207]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1J4ifH-0002Ck-4l for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:03:47 -0800 Received: (qmail 6624 invoked from network); 18 Dec 2007 15:03:38 -0500 Received: from nagas.meson.org (HELO ?192.168.1.101?) (1000@192.168.1.101) by pi.meson.org with SMTP; 18 Dec 2007 15:03:38 -0500 Message-ID: <4768279A.4060101@kli.org> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:03:38 -0500 From: "Mark E. Shoulson" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: SVO order References: <737b61f30712181039r134bca55v908d10e8be1323be@mail.gmail.com> <925d17560712181117k3d8ee116yab87e6e27d6d6361@mail.gmail.com> <3ccac5f10712181136w76664b5drdd962b2c9f12df97@mail.gmail.com> <47682208.20803@perpetuum-immobile.de> <476825A7.1080602@kli.org> <4768265E.20304@perpetuum-immobile.de> In-Reply-To: <4768265E.20304@perpetuum-immobile.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -0.1 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 14039 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: mark@kli.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Timo Paulssen wrote: > Mark E. Shoulson wrote: > >> For example, in the sentence "Fred is a doctor," >> the subject is "Fred" and the predicate is "is a doctor" ("a doctor" >> being a predicate nominative, and part of the predicate) whereas the >> verb is "is." >> > > isn't is only an auxilliary verb anyway? or am i confusing stuff with > german? ;) > I thought auxiliary verb referred to "is" in its role in sentences like "Fred is climbing," where the predicate adjective, "climbing," is really the verb of the sentence, linked in by the "is." But in any case, so what? So it's an auxiliary verb. It's still the verb. ~mark 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.