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Re: [lojban-beginners] Possession with "le le ..."



On Thursday 28 April 2011 11:59:55 Luke Bergen wrote:
> But in {lo lo blabi cu gerku} it seems like it's not behaving the same way.
>  It seems like it's not valid to read this as "take the next selbri and
> make it a sumti: (take the next selbri and make it a sumti: (blabi) <here
> comes a selbri> (gerku) )

"lo blabi cu gerku" is a sentence in which "lo blabi" is a sumti of "gerku". 
But the first "lo" expects a selbri, not a whole bridi, so "lo lo blabi cu 
gerku" is ungrammatical.

Pierre
-- 
.i toljundi do .ibabo mi'afra tu'a do
.ibabo damba do .ibabo do jinga
.icu'u la ma'atman.

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