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

["Marjorie Scherf" <mls1@rice.edu>]

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

Selon Timo Paulssen <timonator@perpetuum-immobile.de>:

> >> 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}?
>
> because cmavo of selma'o COI "eat" a sumti or cmene

They are not always "hungry", are they? I mean {coi} could
stay alone without a following sumti. My question remains:

How would I know that {pat.} belongs to {coi} and not to
{blabi}?


There's a terminator {do'u} you can use to keep it from eating the next
sumti. It's elidable if at the end of a sentence. Without the terminator, it
eats the next word(s). If the next word is a cmevla, it takes all
consecutive cmevla. If it's a brivla, they all get sucked in as a tanru if
you don't have the terminator.

mu'omi'e .skaryzgik.