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[lojban-beginners] Re: fi'o question



On 2/3/06, Betsemes <betsemes@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been reading the reference grammar on the section of modals. I had
> been wondering if a modal built with fi'o/fe'u might accept arguments for
> the other than x1 places this way:
>
> {mi viska do fi'o kanla be la djan fe'u le zunle}
>
> Yeah, quite non-sensical example, but it's the example given at chapter 9
> section 5 of the reference grammar with a "be la djan" added. Apparently the
> formal grammar listed at chapter 21 supports this even while this is not
> mentioned in the text. Is it right? Or am I misreading the YACC code?

That's right. {fi'o} takes any selbri, and arguments linked with {be}
are part of the selbri. (The terminator {fe'u} is elidable there.)

mu'o mi'e xorxes