Return-Path: Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0tHX9t-0000ZUC; Mon, 20 Nov 95 16:25 EET Message-Id: Received: from listmail.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id DE6E9B23 ; Mon, 20 Nov 1995 15:25:21 +0100 Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 09:32:50 -0500 Reply-To: John Cowan Sender: Lojban list From: John Cowan Subject: Re: self-descriptions? X-To: Lojban List To: Veijo Vilva In-Reply-To: <199511172306.SAA21067@locke.ccil.org> from "ucleaar" at Nov 17, 95 10:57:46 pm Content-Length: 573 Lines: 15 la goran. joi la .and. cusku be di'e casnu > > mi'e goran. .i mi caki nanca lirepapisu'o .i le kerfa .e le kanla vu'o > > po'e mi manbu'e > > What does {vuo} mean there? I'd have expected {zie}. Or maybe > {kanlvuo}, ocularly-ukrainian? It's a very new grammatical construction, which causes a following relative clause to affect the whole of the (logically or non-logically) compounded sumti which precedes it, rather than only the immediately preceding term. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban.