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To: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban-beginners] elidable terminator discussion in CLL? Message-ID: <20110204204535.GB60772@alice.local> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com References: <4235790.53.1296846798527.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@prcm18> <201102041529.53961.phma@phma.optus.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <201102041529.53961.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Original-Sender: alyn.post@lodockikumazvati.org X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com: 209.85.210.170 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of alanpost@sunflowerriver.org) smtp.mail=alanpost@sunflowerriver.org Reply-To: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com; contact lojban-beginners+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Length: 2908 On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 03:29:52PM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Friday 04 February 2011 14:13:18 Lindar wrote: > > I don't have an exhaustive list of the English words, so I can't really > > say, but I'll rattle off a few. > > > > gismu - ?? (it's a word-form) > > cmavo - ?? > > function word > > > selma'o - ?? > > bridi - ?? > > clause > > > selbri - predicate > > terbri - argument > > cnima'o - 'attitudinal' > > ?? - discursive > > > fa'orma'o - 'terminator' > > gadri - article? > > sumtcita - modal? > > The proper English translation of "sumtcita" is "adposition", but it is > customary in English to call them "prepositions" or "postpositions", > whichever occur in the language. Since all Lojban adpositions are > prepositions, we should call them that. > > "Modal" is Lojbanic jargon for "preposition derived from a predicate", as > distinct from tense markers used as prepositions. In linguistic terminology > it refers to words like "ka'e". > > > temtcita - specifically time-related (nonce guess) > > I call them "tense markers". Linguists talk of TAM (tense, aspect, mood). > Lojban has spatial tenses as well. I don't know whether they should be > considered as a fourth category or lumped with the time tenses. > > Even mood markers can be used as prepositions. What does "mi zbasu ka'e le > curnu" mean? > > > tanru - ?? > > compound phrase? > > > lujvo - ?? > > compound word, but some lujvo formed with cmavo aren't compounds in the > linguistic sense, but derivations. > > > rafsi - ?? > > bound form > > > selrafsi - ?? > > zi'evla - ?? > > fu'ivla - 'borrow-word' > > malgli - =D > > Anglicism > > > ra'abri - 'clause' (like {noi}) > > What's that? If you mean "subordinate clause", I'd say "vipybri", but that's > what I'd call "nu broda". "noi broda" is a skibri. > > > terjonma'o - 'connective' ({.e} or {gi'e}) > > conjunction > > Also we should have Lojban words for natlang grammatical terms. As some > features of natlangs are lacking in Lojban, some of these will be fu'ivla. > > cmene - proper noun > cmevla - intrinsic proper noun ("John", as distinct from "Bear") > fauvla - verb > daivla - noun > skivla - adjective > adverbio - adverb > nalcme daivla - common noun > infinitivo - infinitive > participio - participle > tersu'i - case > vlacne - inflect (said of a word) > faurvlacne - conjugate > dairvlacne ja skivlacne - decline > tairmupli - form of a word > sumbasti, sumyma'o - pronoun > > Pierre ki'esai pi'er mu'o mi'e .alyn. -- .i ko djuno fi le do sevzi -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lojban Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban-beginners+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners?hl=en.