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>But in Lojban, the equivalent of a reflexive is just a bridi with some of
>the terbridi filled with identical values.  There is not necessarily an
>"agent" to any bridi, the agent need not be in the first terbridi.

Well there is some looseness to lujvo semantics.  But in any case, I think
that sevzi-broda implies some kind of reflecive on the x1 place while
sevzi-se-broda would imply one on the x2 place etc.  It is not a question
of agenthood, but of pointing out the place to reflex.

lojbab