[lojban-beginners] Re: ...to say 'coi'

[Chris Capel <pdf23ds@gmail.com>]

On 8/22/05, HeliodoR <exitconsole@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is this sentence right and legal, please: 
>   
> lenu cusku lu coi li'u kei te rinsa 
>   
> Where the critical part is {cusku lu coi li'u} - does the quoted text become
> x2 of "express"? Or it defaults to x1?
> 
> mi'e .xili,odor. 

I believe you have it right. The first sumti that comes after the
selbri, if there are no brivla sumti before the selbri (though there
can be sumtcita), will default to the second place of the brivla. (I
think all those terms are right.)

Something I wonder, though, is what happens in cases like this: {fe la
alis. cukta fa ti la lu,es. carol.}. Does the third sumti fit into the
third place of cukta, since the second place is already filled earlier
in the sentence? (Of course, to really do this you'd just do {se
cukta}, but I'm sure there are examples where this could be useful. Or
speakers that hate using conversion cmavo.)

Chris Capel
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