[lojban-beginners] Re: "Lupin's left eye is rebelling"

["Philip Newton" <pnewton@gmx.de>]

On 7 Mar 2004 at 21:48, Eric Sumner wrote:

> The place structure of {kanla} is "x1 is a/the eye [body-part] of x2"
> and is not significantly changed by {zunle}, therefore {la lupan.}
> should be in the x2 place of that tanru. 

It could be, but need not.

{le la lupyn. zunle kanla} is "the left eye associated with Lupin", 
equivalent to {le zunle kanla pe la lupyn} - though as Andrew pointed 
out, {po'e} may be better. Or, as you mentioned, including it in the 
tanru, which would require {be} - {le zunle kanla be la lupyn}

> Also, {zunle kanla la lupan.} is an entire bridi and must be
> relativized to use it as a sumti with {poi}:  {poi zunle kanla la
> lupan.}. 

Not necessarily - you could just stick a gadri in front of it (e.g. 
{le}), but then you'd need {be} to glue the "la lupyn" into the tanru 
rather than having it fall apart as a sumti of its own.

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