Re: [lojban] Re: Three (4) more questions

[pycyn@aol.com]

In a message dated 4/17/2001 5:54:08 PM Central Daylight Time,
lojbab@lojban.org writes:

On the other hand, it does constitute "lo valsi" if one allows for the fact
that unmarked-number is not necessarily singular.  Still, most people tend
to think in terms of singular usages.

But as several words it is not a potential selbri -- it is so only as a
structure, a string (at the surface) or  the appropriate sort of tree or
function or whatever your grammar thinks the depths look like.  One of the
words is a brivla, the others are not and become parts of a (potential)
selbri only when properly combined.