[lojban] Re: Help in examples ...

["riderofgiraffes" <lojban@solipsys.co.uk>]

>> Please can someone provide me with a few examples 
>> where a sumti cannot be passed of as "just a complex 
>> sort of noun"?  
>  
> There's no such thing ... If we 
> called the sumti "noun phrases", the gismu "simple 
> verbs" and so on, we could speak about lojban grammar 
> in English just fine. 
 
I think that turns out not to be entirely the case. {blanu}, for 
example, is not well described as a "verb" because it subsumes the 
verb "to be".  The selbri, and brivla in particular, have almost 
swayed her because of the unification offered by predicates. Counter 
examples to sumti=noun might get most of the way there. 
 





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