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[lojban-beginners] Re: non-bridi grammar?



Selon "Turniansky, Michael \\[UNK\\]" <MICHAEL.A.TURNIANSKY@saic.com>:

> cmavo of type COI

Which type? How can I recognize cmavo of this type?

> take a following sumti and the combined phrase
> functions grammtically like discursives grammtically like a UI, that is
> to say, it can appear basically anywhere in a sentece.  For example, the
> following is perfectly grammatical:
>
> le mi gerku coi pat cu blabi => my dog (Hi, Pat!) is white.

And how would you know that {pat.} belongs to {coi} and not
to {blabi}?

> An utterance doesn't have to be a sentence/brivla.  For example, if
> someone asks:
>
> ma pa citka ta ("Who ate that?")

{pa} is a number meaning "one", isn't it?

> A perfectly valid response is "oi sai ro'e le blabi gerku po'e mi"
> (grrr... the white dog, which belongs to me), which isn't a brivla,
> either, but is an multi-word utterance.

Where could I find more about such discursives?

Martin