Re: [lojban-beginners] lo la me no da

[Kevin Reid <kpreid@switchb.org>]

On Sep 10, 2010, at 10:09, Luke Bergen wrote:

> {du} has always kind of confused me.  How does it function?  Is it a  
> selbri?  Does it behave like a relative clause? A kind of  
> abstractor? Is it it's own grammatical construct?

It is just a selbri. You can use it anywhere you can use a brivla; it  
just happens to be morphologically a cmavo. The meaning of "du" could  
have been given to a gismu instead; it was just decided that this word  
should be especially short.

Grammatically, {du} is in selma'o GOhA; the other members of GOhA are  
the selbri-position special words like {mo} and {go'i}.

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Kevin Reid                                  <http://switchb.org/kpreid/>



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