[lojban-beginners] Re: Asking specific questions

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Ian Johnson <blindbravado@gmail.com> wrote:
> OK. So how does go'i work, exactly, in the case of "go'i lo mi zdani"?
> Ordinarily it repeats the previous {bridi}, yes, and if you give it an
> article it can be used to refer back to a particular {sumti} in the previous
> {bridi} (as in, say, le se go'i). But what happens here, logically?

"go'i" is a selbri, so strictly speaking it repeats the selbri of the
previous bridi, but a selbri can always be a bridi by itself, and the
missing "zo'e"s are usually taken to be the same arguments as those of
the previous bridi, so the effect is as if you had repeated the whole
bridi. But you can always fill any argument of "go'i" with something
explicit, such as "lo mi zdani", in which case that argument will no
longer be the corresponding one from the preceding bridi.

mu'o mi'e xorxes