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Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: non-bridi grammar?
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:14:06 -0400
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cmavo of type COI take a following sumti and the combined phrase
functions grammtically like discursives grammtically like a UI, that is
to say, it can appear basically anywhere in a sentece.  For example, the
following is perfectly grammatical:

le mi gerku coi pat cu blabi => my dog (Hi, Pat!) is white.

An utterance doesn't have to be a sentence/brivla.  For example, if
someone asks:

ma pa citka ta ("Who ate that?")

A perfectly valid response is "oi sai ro'e le blabi gerku po'e mi"
(grrr... the white dog, which belongs to me), which isn't a brivla,
either, but is an multi-word utterance.

            --gejyspa


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Subject: [lojban-beginners] non-bridi grammar?

Consider the following:

{mi'e pat.}
{coi pat.}

To my understanding these two sentences do not
seem to contain any bridi. Still they contain
more than one word and are correct Lojban
sentences, aren't they? Such sentences are very
useful and probably quite frequent.

What's the grammar of these non-bridi (?)
more-than-one-word sentences?

Martin