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[lojban] Re: grammar oddity challenge



--- Craig <ragnarok@pobox.com> wrote:
> >> >> On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 02:00:04PM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> 
> >It is a brivla at least in parser terms:
> >"a. Token sequences of the form any - (ZEI - any) ..., where
> >there may be any number of ZEIs, are merged into a single token
> >of selma'o BRIVLA."
> 
> But selma'o BRIVLA only exists in the mind of the parser. It certainly isn't
> a real group of cmavo - in fact, the terms "brivla" and "cmavo" are mutually
> exclusive, IIRC.

Well, {da zei da} is certainly not one cmavo but three. On the other
hand {go'i} is both a brivla and a cmavo. At least that's how I would
understand it.

What would you call a token of selma'o BRIVLA?

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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