Re: [lojban-beginners] What actually are the rules of word formation?

[Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org>]

On Wednesday, April 22, 2015 18:32:21 TR NS wrote:
> On Sunday, April 19, 2015 at 6:01:48 PM UTC-4, cirko wrote:
> > - a zihevla:
> >    - a vowel syllable
> >    - followed by any number of vowel, h-, or consonantal syllables
> >    - followed by a vowel- or h-syllable with no final consonant
> >    - is not a gismu or sequence of more than one rafsi
> >    - e.g. cpi,kù,ku  àl,ga  fì,pr,koi  glàu,ka  sprà,'e
> 
> So the only way to identify a zi'hevla is by stress? e.g. `cpiku ku` vs.
> `cpikuku`

You tell that a word is in greater brivla space (a term from my program 
valfendi) because it ends in a vowel and its second consonant is either next 
to another consonant or separated by "y" from a consonant. If you have stress 
but not word divisions (i.e. you're hearing speech), the word division of a 
brivla is such that the next-to-last syllable (not counting syllables whose 
nucleus is "y" or a consonant) is stressed and the last syllable ends in a 
vowel. You tell a zi'evla from a gismu because it is not a gismu or sequence 
of more than one rafsi. (A single rafsi either doesn't have two consonants or 
doesn't have two vowels.)

"cpíkuku" is a gismu and a cmavo: "cpiku ku". "cpikúku" is a zi'evla.
"dadysabodre" is in greater brivla space but is not a word. Since it has "y" 
in it, it's a lujvo if it's a brivla; but it cannot be broken into rafsi.

Pierre
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