Re: [lojban] The efficacy of Lojban's grammar.

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
> ta'o
>> "lo melbi ko
>> li'i cerni" (have a beautiful morning, or literally, be the
>> experiencer of a beautiful experience of a morning).
>
> I'm having a little trouble parsing this myself.  Let's see.  {lo melbi ko
> li'i cerni}  ->  {lo melbi ku cu li'i cerni ko} ?
>
> Could someone with a bit more knowledge break it down correctly for me?

{lo melbi (ku) cu li'i cerni (vau) kei ko (vau)}

You can't elide "kei" if you put "ko" at the end.

> How
> many sumti are there, which chunk is the selbri (if any), etc...

"li'i cerni (vau) (kei)" is the selbri, "lo melbi (ku)" and "ko" are
its two sumti.

Remember that "NU .... (KEI)" converts a bridi, in this case the bridi
"(zo'e) cerni (zo'e) (zo'e) (vau)" into the selbri: "li'i (zo'e) cerni
(zo'e) (zo'e) (vau) (kei)".

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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