On 29.05.2013 14:32, Michael Turniansky wrote:
I can't even figure out why this parses. "mi pe ca" seems to be
missing a sumti. (And, okay, I see, by looking at the formal grammar,
that GOI are followed by a term, and "term" includes tag(+KU), which
includes "ca", but I guess my question is "why can GOI be followed by
any term, and not solely by a sumti? What does it even mean, exactly?
Exactly for the type of example you have here? "lo gerku ne ri'u cu
blabi" ("The dog, which is on the right, is white"?) Although that
makes things like like "la maik goi fa'a cu damva'u" parseable but
unfathomable (I mean, okay, there at least an aleph-null amount of
utterances that are parseable as well as unfathomable, but this just
seems to be fundamentally weird, although it does allow tags on
non-brivla-based sumti (KOhA, ZO+valsi, LA+cmevla, etc), which
wouldn't otherwise be possible.
Exactly.I interpret {pe BAI SUMTI} as {poi BAI SUMTI cu co'e}, or more generally:
{pe TERM} as {poi TERM co'e}.
Gee, I've come around 180 degrees from my first impression. I guess it IS a pretty good thing. Wish it had been mentioned in the CLL, though, which I don't see.
Could you add this to the CLL-errata section on the tiki, please? (unless it *is* mentioned in the CLL, it really should be, but a quick search didn't turn up anything) mu'o mi'e la selpa'i -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lojban Beginners" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to lojban-beginners+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.