On 7/5/06, Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/5/06, Jonathan Gibbons <jonored@gmail.com> wrote: > Although there is the example of > > > "le nu broda ku brode" and "le nu broda kei brode" are grammatical, > > but "le nu broda brode", eliding both terminators, is not. > > from the discussion, that leads me to ask; is a statement that > consists of just a sumti, with no selbri, grammatical or > ungrammatical?
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So I believe that {le nu broda brode} is grammatical; it's merely not
equivalent to the other two example, since {broda brode} forms a tanru
there.
Right. Notice that the other two are not equivalent either:
{(le nu broda ku) brode} is a full bridi.
{le (nu broda kei) brode} is just a sumti.
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