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

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 7/24/05, Zachary <vyseofarcadia17@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've always looked at a gismu as just a word. Just like 'scratch' can
> be used as a verb or a noun, a gismu can be a selbri or a sumti.

A gismu by itself can only be a selbri.

A gismu (or any other selbri) preceded by a gadri (article) makes up a sumti. 

{gerku} is a gismu.

In the sentence {ta gerku}, the gismu {gerku} is the selbri.
In {ta blabi gerku}, the two gismu {blabi} and {gerku} conform the selbri.
In the sentence {le gerku cu cmoni}, the gismu {gerku} is part of
the sumti {le gerku}, and the gismu {cmoni} is the selbri.

> That, and I've always seen a cmene as just a name, rather than a part
> of speech or a sentence. 

{la djan} is a sumti composed of the article {la} and the cmene (or more 
precisely, cmevla) {djan}. 

cmevla, like {djan}, can be used to form a sumti, as in {la djan},
or to form a vocative as in {coi djan}, or they can be quoted as any
other word, as in {zo djan}.

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