[lojban] Re: preposition whose object is a vocative phrase

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

On 1/7/08, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> I noticed [[xingu'e]] on Wikipedia, made a few changes (such as
> boldfacing "barat"), and then noticed the following sentence:
>
> ko'a cu remoi barda gugde fi'o merli tadji lo prenu klani fi'o kansa mu'o le
> gigdo prenu gi'e zemoi barda gugde fi'o merli tadji lo tutra klani
>
> This looks like a malgli xelfanva of something ("remoi barda", for instance,
> is supposed to mean "second largest"), but "mu'o" makes no sense at all, and
> the writer obviously meant something like "ji'i". I threw the sentence at
> jbofi'e and was surprised to see it parse. What does "fi'o kansa mu'o le
> gigdo prenu" mean?

The vocative is not the object of the preposition, it is rather attached
to the selbri {kansa}. The tag is in this case a {tag [ku]} term.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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