xod wrote:
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.
Absolutely. IIRC, Nick and I put that in one of the notes to the lessons. robin.tr --"I'm very into Britney Spears' early work, before she sold out, so mostly her, um, finger painting and macaroni art."
Dawn - BtVS Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin