Re: gasnu

["Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@hotmail.com>]

la reciproc cusku di'e

>Isn't that a bit repetitive? From "lenu la djan. mi'afra cu mukti lenu la
>robin. darxi dy." it's fairly obvious that Robin's the one doing the
>hitting.

Yes, that's why it is not necessary to fill the x3 of mukti.
The only other alternative I can see is that John's laughter
motivates John himself to being hit by Robin, which is more
unlikely.

There are many Lojban predicates that take an argument
that is always a sub-argument of one of the other arguments.
This still can be useful when the event argument is not
given explicitly, for instance:

            le nu la djan mi'afra cu mukti ma la robin
            John's laughter motivates Robin to do what?

            le nu la djan mi'afra cu mukti so'ida la robin
            John's laughter motivates Robin to do many things.

            le nu la djan mi'afra cu mukti lo vlile la robin
            John's laughter motivates Robin to do something violent.

co'o mi'e xorxes