Re: [lojban-beginners] cei

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 8:07 PM, tijlan <jbotijlan@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Is it grammatical to introduce a lujvo with "cei" following a tanru,
> even if no pro-bridi is involved, like this:
>
>  ti carna nalci vinji cei carna'ivinji

It's grammatical, but the question is, what does it mean?

"cei" identifies the two predicates it joins, but a tanru and the
lujvo made with the tanru elements usually will be two different
predicates.

The tanru has the same place structure of the rightmost element.
(Except when "co" is involved, then things get complicated.)

The lujvo will have its own usually different place structure, based
on the arguments of all of its components. So strictly speaking it
would not make sense to connect a lujvo and a tanru with "cei" that
way, unless you are defining the lujvo as having the same meaning of
the tanru.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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