[lojban] Re: inflect, conjugate, decline, and other grammar terms

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

On 6/20/07, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> How should we express these terms?
> inflect - I'm thinking {ja'ocne} (x1 varies in x2, showing x3, or something
> like that)

How about
vlacne: "x1 varies/inflects in manner x2 meaning/causing x3 in language x4"

> conjugate, decline. Verbs conjugate, nouns and adjectives decline -

brivlacne, sumvlacne?

> but is the
> Russian past tense conjugated or declined?

Why would you expect it to be declined? (I know very little about Russian.)

> derive - e.g. forming {nunbroda} from {broda}.

gafrafsi: "x1 is a derivational affix based on word x2 that changes x3 into x4
in language x5"

   zo nunbroda cu te gafrafsi zo nu zo broda

> Unlike most languages in which
> they are single words, the comparative {rodmau} and superlative {rodrai} are
> compounds, not derivations.
> person - we have words for "first-person pronoun" (mibma'o) and "second-person
> pronoun" (donma'o), but what's just "person"?

genpre?

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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