[lojban-beginners] Re: Dots and spaces (was: Logical connectives)

["Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 6/18/07, Vid Sintef <picos.picos@gmail.com> wrote:
> How about {le mi cukta xunre}, where I don't want {mi} to modify the whole
> {le cukta xunre} but only {cukta} (so, "the redness which is peculiar to the
> book of mine" rather than "the book-specific redness which has to do with
> me")?

That could be {le me mi cukta xunre}.

{me mi} is a tanru component, {mi} is not.


> Is it an explicit sumti linking which I have to use in that case: {le
> cukta pe mi xunre} or {le xunre co cukta pe mi}?

{le cukta pe mi xunre} is a full bridi that means "my book is red".
{le cukta pe mi} is a sumti, and {xunre} is the selbri.

{pe} attaches a sumti to another sumti, not to a brivla, like {be}
does. So when you say {le cukta pe ...} you know that the sumti
that starts with {le} is finished, {xunre} cannot be part of that sumti.

In {le xunre co cukta pe mi}, {mi} is attached to the sumti
{le xunre co cukta}.

mu'o mi'e xorxes