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[lojban-beginners] Re: PLace structure vs. cmavo?



On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 7:25 AM, Tom Gysel <to_mu1975@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Do you (or anyone else) know if there is a way of classifying gismu, as in:
> these types of gismu have this kind of place structure, and this sort has
> this structure... ? To memorize them with much more ease?

It can be done, at least for some gismu, for example all animals and
plants have basically the same place structure, all culture words have
the same place structure, all body-parts have mosly the same place
structure, etc. But usually all these classes have exceptions. Here is
an attempt at classifying all the gismu that have a property (ka)
place into nine classes:
<http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=BPFK+gismu+Section%3A+Problems+With+ka>.
You can see that all of them have exceptions.

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