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[lojban-beginners] left-branching NOI
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- Subject: [lojban-beginners] left-branching NOI
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- Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 13:48:45 +0200
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In languages such as Turkish, Japanese, Tamil, and Basque, a noun
phrase is formed such that the dependents (the adjective, the numeral,
the genitive (-'s) noun and the relative clause) tend to come before
the head (the main noun). This is called 'left-branching' or
'head-final'. Here is a Japanese example for "a/the woman who is
different from others":
hoka to tigau onna
(others from different woman)
This word order may be expressed in Lojban, with additional
grammatical components, as:
LE NOI [ke'a] fe lo drata cu frica ku'o ninmu
But what if the head is a pronoun/prosumti, as in "you who are
different from others"? For left-branching languages, this is to bring
the NOI clause before "do". Is that possible? Perhaps:
FA NOI [ke'a] fe lo drata cu frica ku'o do
?
mu'o mi'e tijlan