So, {lu la djan cu citka sei la djein fi la djim cusku le plise li'u} would become "john eats, said jane to jim, the apple"?
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Timo Paulssen
<timonator@perpetuum-immobile.de> wrote:
Luke Bergen wrote:
> That brings up a question for me. In that sentence that you gave tijlan,
> what about the text tells us that the {fi lo cukta...} applies to the
> {prali} and not to the {pensi}? Does {sei} take a bridi, a selbri, or
> something else? What terminates a {sei} or is the idea of terminating {sei}
> as absurd as terminating {zo}? I've perused the CLL but {sei} isn't
> documented very well there from what I have found.
>
The grammar of the bridi following “sei” has an unusual limitation: the
sumti must either all precede the selbri, or must be glued into the
selbri with “be” and “bei”:
12.5) la frank. prami sei gleki be fa la suzn. la djein.
Frank loves (Susan is happy) Jane.
This restriction allows the terminator cmavo “se'u” to almost always be
elided.