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[lojban] Re: word for "action"
--- Pierre Abbat <phma@webjockey.net> wrote:
> If he's looking for a word meaning "a Lojban word corresponding
> to an English verb", I don't think he'll find one.
I speculate he wants to class some gismu as describing
activities, processes, changes of state, and such but
not including states or "essences" (or whatever
"being a person" is.)
> If he wants a word meaning "a Lojban
> verb", we have one: {brivla}. Since what concepts are expressed
> by which part of speech varies widely among languages (e.g. many
> English prepositions are expressed in Hebrew by nouns in the construct
> state, as are the verb phrases "there is" and "there isn't"), I see
> nothing wrong with calling English verbs brivla or Lojban brivla verbs.
I agree, but I think he is not so interested in grammatical
categories as in conceptual ones. Every gismu is a brivla,
but he wants to sort gismu into subclasses, such as gismu
describing colours, gismu describing "actions", and so on.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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