Re: [lojban-beginners] Place structure vs. grammatical morphemes

[Lindar <lindarthebard@gmail.com>]

I'd also like to point out that the set of place structures is fairly regular.

Compare: dunda, cpacu, lebna

Compare: klama, litru, cliva, plipe, cpare, muvdu

Compare: gerku, finpe, mlatu, cipni, tricu, danlu, bakni

Compare: djuno, morji, cilre

Compare: kerfa, xance, stedu, kerlo, rebla, kanla, birka, etc.

You start to see similarities. So it's not like every word has a completely arbitrary place structure. When you start to acquire more vocabulary you stop memorising individual places and start memorising what 'type' of place structure it has. I don't really remember the full place structure of {morji}, I just know that it's got the place structure for knowledge things. If it's a part of something, undoubtedly it's going to be "x1 is the $thing of x2" be it arm, leg, face, etc. If it's a living thing, it's going to be "x1 is a $thing of species/variety x2". If it has to do with goods moving then likely it's going to be "x1 = active agent, x2 = object = x3 = passive agent" and then an extra place maybe if there's something else intrinsic to the process (like {vecnu}). You can bet that if something is moving then it's going to be "x1 = thing, x2 = destination, x3 = origin" and then a bunch of other places for whatever with some sort of variation on the theme as necessary, such as bumping everything down one place to make room for the carrier in {bevri}. So instead of tagging a thematic role for every single word, the selbri have their own preconfigured and regular shapes.

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