Re: [lojban] Regular vs dictionary lujvo

["Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 1/4/07, Cyril Slobin <slobin@ice.ru> wrote:
> For the second goal I suggest the following two rules:
> 1) Rafsi derived from cmavo is more affixish (has a higher priority)
> than rafsi derived from gismu.

This might work for some cases, such as tol- or sel- but I don't think
it will work for all cmavo with rafsi. For example, I think pav- tends to
work more like a gismu. {pavyseljirna} is (a kind of) {seljirna be
lo pa mei}, but I would say that {pavgau} is not a kind of {gasnu be
lo pa mei} but {x1 gasnu be lo nu x2 pa mei}, "x1 unifies x2" i.e. more
like an ordinary gau-lujvo.

> 2) Unless the first rule gives an answer, rafsi at the end of lujvo is
> more affixish (has a higher priority) than rafsi at te beginning of
> lujvo.

For example, malgau: {x1 gasnu lo nu x2 mabla}? I tend to agree. In
general I think rafsi from gismu should never behave like true prefixes,
but unfortunately some of them do seem to.

mu'o mi'e xorxes