On 7/5/06, Jonathan Gibbons <jonored@gmail.com> wrote:
Although there is the example of > "le nu broda ku brode" and "le nu broda kei brode" are grammatical, > but "le nu broda brode", eliding both terminators, is not. from the discussion, that leads me to ask; is a statement that consists of just a sumti, with no selbri, grammatical or ungrammatical?
Grammatical, as I understand. Not least because it lets you answer
fill-in-the-blank questions, for example:
Q: do klama ma
A: le zarci
"Where are you going?" - "To the market."
So I believe that {le nu broda brode} is grammatical; it's merely not
equivalent to the other two example, since {broda brode} forms a tanru
there.
mu'o mi'e .filip.
noi ca mrilu fo la djimeil. mu'i tu'a la timos.
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>