Pierre Abbat wrote:
On Monday 31 May 2004 08:45, Jorge "Llambías" wrote:--- Robin Turner <robin@Bilkent.EDU.TR> wrote:Lojban does not have nouns, verbs etc., and I am convinced that our endless debates about Lojban articles are partly caused by the fact that we still think of them as articles.Sounds right. I think the best way to think of {lo} is as a selbri-to-sumti converter, without any additional baggage.To someone who doesn't know Lojban, "selbri" and "sumti" are semantic zeros. The closest terms in English, I think, are "verb phrase" and "noun phrase",
A closer analogy might be Function and Arguments. --Motorists honked in celebration in this Ramadi as news spread of the assassination of the president of the Iraqi Governing Council Ezzidin Salim Monday. "The GC is nothing," one man shouted. "They are not the Governing Council. They are the Prostitution Council."