[lojban] Re: X-bar, chomsky and lojban

["Jorge Llambías" <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On 5/16/06, And Rosta <and.rosta@gmail.com> wrote:
> One needs to be complement of the other. I.e. either a LE
> takes a KU phrase as complement (with the rest of the sumti
> within the KU phrase), or a KU takes a LE phrase as
> complement (with the rest of the sumti within the LE phrase).
> My intuitions tell me the latter would work better.

Because of the syntax or of the semantics? In other words,
if instead of

lo broda ku
le broda ku
loi broda ku
lei broda ku

Lojban had for example:

lo broda ku
lo broda ki
lo broda kau
lo broda kai

so that the semantic component of the gadri was given by
the terminator, would it make more sense to have the
initiator as the head?

I don't know if X-bar allows the head and the complement
to be infixed/circumfixed to each other, but if it does then
I think LE.../KU/ should be considered as one element and
the inner selbri as the other element.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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