[lojban-beginners] Re: Some questions

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

la iuvál cusku di'e

> In fact, now I am more bothered by that than before. Doesn't mu'o being a 
> COI
> mean that both "mu'o mi'e iuvál" and "mi'e iuvál. mu'o" are non-gramatical
> (because no name or do'u is present), and should instead be expressed "mu'o 
> mi'e iuvál do'u" and "mi'e iuvál mu'o do'u"?

"iuvál" is the name which is present! You can have a string of many 
COI's followed by an optional {doi} and then a name and the vocative
is closed with {do'u}.

{mu'o} by itself is still grammatical if not followed by anything else
because the parser will insert the elidable terminator.

> > It doesn't by itself mark the end of an utterance. The construction that 
> > it heads marks the end of the utterance.
> 
> That is precisely the problem - how could one tell where the construction 
> ends?
> It could in theory be an arbitrarily long "mu'o do'u ui ui ui ..."

Yes. Maybe what you are after is the end of parsable input marker,
which is {fa'o}.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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