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[lojban] Re: is a gismu a selbri?
On Dec 18, 2007 3:39 PM, Chris Capel <pdf23ds@gmail.com> wrote:
> LFB says in chapter 2 part 1
>
> "A selbri is not a type of word (like a 'verb' in English); it is
> something that some types of words can do."
>
> Is this correct? Does it even make sense?
Yes. A selbri is a construct, which may consist of one or more words.
Examples of selbri are: {klama}, {sutra klama}, {pu klama}, {ci moi},
{me la .djan.}, {nu mi klama le zarci}, etc.
> By this interpretation, a
> gismu would not *be* a selbri, but only able to act as one.
Correct.
> Yet I
> believe that for any type of word that can act as a selbri, each word
> of that type can act as a selbri, so there's really no reason not to
> say that a gismu *is* a selbri. Or have I gone wrong here?
A gismu, like all brivla, can, all by itself, be the selbri of a given
bridi, yes.
> I think perhaps the author was just trying to provide some concepts to
> preempt confusion over Lojban vs. English parts of speech, but thereby
> ends up being slightly inaccurate.
"selbri" is not a part of speech, unless one considers "noun phrase" for
example a part of speech.
"gismu" is also not a part of speech in the usual sense. The parts of speech
in Lojban would be BRIVLA, CMEVLA, A, BAI, ..., ZOhU.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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