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[lojban-beginners] Re: left-branching NOI



On 6/21/09, tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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?

If you add a quantifier, yes:

  lo noi frica lo drata ku'o pa(/su'o/ro) do

>Perhaps:
>
>  FA NOI [ke'a] fe lo drata cu frica ku'o do
>
> ?

The problem is that not all sumti can have a FA or a tag in front, so
even if that were allowed that wouldn't take care of all cases.

mu'o mi'e xorxes