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RE: [lojban] Complements and adjuncts
At 09:49 AM 07/02/2000 +0100, Colin Fine wrote:
I guess what I am asking is whether
ta xelflaka'i be la kalifornias ra'i la ilinOIs
and
ta xelflaka'i la kalifornias ra'i la ilinOIs
are synonymous, or does the structural difference have a semantic correlate?
Without trying to deal with your overall question, I believe it has been
stated that these two are synonymous, in that the explicit use of "be" does
not change the meaning. There are too many ways in which it could be made
necessary to express the "be" to have the meaning be different (e.g. using
"co" in a tanru or turning the bridi into a sumti on x1).
lojbab
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