Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: [bpfk] polysemy of {nai}

[Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org>]

On Wednesday, December 12, 2012 19:50:29 Annie wrote:
> what do you mean by a predicate relation? is that basically the subject, or
> is the subject one of the arguments?

The subject is one of the arguments. In English, and accusative languages in 
general, the subject is the first argument, the direct object is the second, 
and the indirect object is the third (even though it precedes the direct 
object in the sentence). There is at least one four-argument verb in English. 
Other arguments can be added with prepositions, which are selma'o BAI in 
Lojban. Lojban also has the jai ... fai method of adding an argument, which 
has no equivalent in English.

Pierre
-- 
li ze te'a ci vu'u ci bi'e te'a mu du
li ci su'i ze te'a mu bi'e vu'u ci

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