[lojban-beginners] Re: Moon River

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

--- Matt Arnold wrote:
> But is it acceptable to nest relative clauses as the following does?
> doi la lunra poi rirxe
> noi se minli ganra

There are three points where you can attatch a relative clause
to a sumti like {la lunra [ku]}: after {la}, between {lunra}
and {ku}, and after {ku}. By convention, attatching it after
{la} has the same meaning as after {ku}. Between {lunra} and
{ku}, the relative clause is part of the name, after {ku} it
is not part of the name, so here you probably want either
{la poi rirxe ku'o lunra} or {la lunra ku poi rirxe} if the
idea is to restrict the referents of {la lunra} to just those
that are rivers. {la lunra poi rirxe} is equivalent to
{la lunra poi rirxe ku}, and that's why you could grammatically
have {noi se minli ganra}, which will come after the elided {ku}.
A third clause would be ungrammatical. To attatch more than one 
relative clause to a sumti at the same level, you can connect 
them with {zi'e}. 

mu'o mi'e xorxes



		
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