[lojban-beginners] Re: Parts of speech, parts of sentence

[GREGORY DYKE <gregory.dyke@epfl.ch>]

> 
> I perceive a "gismu" to be a part of speech, and a "sumti" to be a
> part of the sentence. I also see a "cmene" as a part of speech.
> Is that reasonable?

More or less. Except it is not really a correct term to call them "parts
of speech", whatever the language we are talking about. In lojban,
further more, the distinction is moot - there is no confusion anyway. In
formal grammars, what you are calling parts of speech would be terminal
elements and what you are calling parts of sentence are grammatical rules.

The "parts of sentence" are all the rules of the grammar (of which there
are a fairly large number) "parts of speech" are the various selma'o
augmented by the _selma'o be zi'o_ which are CMENE and GISMU. See the
reference grammar in Complete Lojban Language: all the rules are parts
of sentence, all the terminals are parts of speech.

mu'o mi'e greg